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Lambeth 1959

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

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101
FOOD COMPLAINTS - 1959
94 complaints about food were received and set out below is
a list of 66 of these whichs after investigation were considered
to be justified.
1. Bread Contained a nut
2. Milk Contained small portions of dried leaf
3. Luncheon Meat Contained bristle
4. Meat Pie Contained screw
5. Canned
Marmalade Apricot Jam
6. Corned Beef Contained foreign matter
7. Lemonade Foreign odour
8. Milk Sour
9. Bread Contained bristle
10. Butter Contained piece of parchment paper
11. Sausage Roll Mouldy
12. Milk Contained glass
13. Milk Contained lime and sand
14. Bread Contained fibres of sacking and string
15. Suet Rancid
16. Sausage Roll Mouldy
17. Pastry Mouldy
18. Bread Contained fibrous part of wheat flour
19. Orange Juice Unusual flavour
20. Meat Pattie Contained piece of bone
21. Bun Contained nail
22. Pie/Pastry Unpleasant taste
23. Pies Mouldy
24. Plastic water
bottle Water turns pink
25. Bread Mouldy
26. Angel Cake Foreign matter
27. Milk Bottle Dirty on inside
28. Meat Contained bullet
29. Tin of
Pineapple Contained wasp
30. Cauliflower Contained large caterpillar
31. Milk Bottle Dirty on outside
32. Snow Cake Mouldy
33. Sultanas Contained maggots
34. Bread Mouldy
35. Currants Contained maggots
36. Chocolate Contained maggots
37. Bread Contained oil
38. Milk Contained active moulds
39. Bread Mouldy
40. Bun Contained wasp
41. Meat Pie Mouldy
42. Churns of Milk Contained black specks, carbon
43. Churns of Milk Contained black specks, carbon
44. Bread Contained wasp
45. Meat Pie Mouldy
46. Lites Unwholesome smell
47. Bacon Contained cloth
48. Chocolate Contained maggots
49. Pastry Contained head of a moth
50. Fruit Pie Mouldy
51. Crumpets Mouldy
52. Oats Contained maggots
53. Cheesel'ets Stale