London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Hammersmith 1968
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hammersmith Borough]
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the samples graded as follows
Provisional Grade
Time taken to decolourise
Methylene Blue
1 4½ hours or more
2 2½ hours or more
3 ½ to 2 hours
4 Less than ½ hour
The 22 samples were placed in the following grades
8 were within Grade 1
5 were within Grade 2
5 were within Grade 3
4 were within Grade 4
Premises Registered under Section 16, Food and Drugs Act
| Ice cream manufacturers | 1 |
| Ice cream sales only | 3 |
| Confectioners (sweetshops) selling ice cream | 220 |
| Restaurants (selling ice cream for consumption off the premises) | 19 |
| Grocers selling ice cream | 127 |
| Fruiterers and greengrocers selling ice cream | 12 |
| Off licence premises selling ice cream | 13 |
| Bakers selling ice cream | 2 |
| Hairdressers selling ice cream | 3 |
| Fried Fish shop selling ice cream | 1 |
| Butchers preserving meat and/or manufacturing sausages | 61 |
| Grocers and provision dealers preserving meat | 33 |
| Caterers preserving meat | 3 |
| Fishmongers curing fish | 19 |
| Food factories manufacturing sausages and preserved food | 4 |
| Total | 521 |
Milk Supplies
There are two milk processing depots in the Borough, each with its
own private railway sidings enabling it to receive milk daily from the
country by rail as well as by road in 3,000 gallon capacity tankers.
Milk is collected from the farms and bulked at creamery centres in
the dairying areas and, after preliminary tests, it is despatched to the
processing depots. Since the introduction of bulk collecting systems at
the farms, a quantity of milk collected in this way is now received at
the depots as well as some despatched direct from farms in churns.
One of these depots has now ceased bottling milk and has developed
the manufacture of milk products, notably yoghurt, in addition to filling
cartons of pasteurised milk. The other depot is in the process of
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