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Lambeth 1957

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth Borough]

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80
FOOD COMPLAINTS
96 complaints about food were investigated by the Food
Inspector together with the district Inspector, 65 of which were
justified, and a list of these is set out below.
1. Bread containing particles of iron
2. Bread containing mineral grease and soot
3. Lemonade deteriorated through age
4. Bread rolls containing particles of iron
5. Bread in dirty condition
6. Chocolates containing insect larvae
7. Evaporated milk blown tin
8. Bread containing brush bristles
9. Milk bottle containing rust spots
10. Milk containing wire
11. Jellied eels unpleasant taste
12. Milk containing cork
13. Milk containing mould growth and dirt
14. Bread containing match stick
15. Milk containing mould growth and dirt
16. Sweets containing foreign matter
17. Nougat unpleasant taste and smell
18. Bread containing foreign matter
19. Bread containing tobacco
20. Jam mould on surface
21. Milk containing glass
22. Cheese cakes unpleasant taste and smell
23. Meat pie containing wire
24. Bread containing lubricating grease
25. Bread roll containing string
26. Sausage rolls mouldy condition
27. Fish unfit to eat
28. Pastry mouldy condition
29. Orange drink unpleasant taste
30. Milk bottle in dirty condition
31. Bread rolls in dirty condition
32. Milk bottle in dirty condition
33. Milk bottle in dirty condition
34. Mushrooms infested with maggots
35. Chicken green and maggotty
36. Milk bottle containing cement and sand
37. Pork pies in mouldy condition
38. Bread in mouldy condition
39. Currants containing maggots
40. Bread containing glass
41. Doughnut containing insect
42. Bacon unpleasant taste
43. Chicken unfit to eat
44. Rusks unpleasant flavour
45. Flour containing tobacco
46. Milk bottle containing lime and sand
47. Butter rancid
48. Bread containing string
49. Drinking chocolate containing maggots
* 50. Layer cake containing fly
* 51. Bread bird excreta on crust
52. Drinking chocolate containing maggots
53. Sweets infested with insects
54. Sugar bitter taste
55. Milk containing glass
56. Bread roll containing nail
57. Milk bottle in dirty condition