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Lambeth 1960

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

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104
FOOD COMPLAINTS - 1960
75 complaints about food were received and set out below is a list of 50 of
these which, after investigation, were considered to be justified.
1. Medicinal Paraffin Bottle stained
2. Meat Pie Mouldy
3. Settle of Milk Contained Lime Salts
4. Fruit Bun Contained piece of wire
5. Ice Cream Contained hairpin
6. Meat Contained lead pellets
7. Biscuit Contained bristle
8. Leg of Lamb Unwholesome condition
9. Bread Contained piece of metal
10. Part of lunch Contained flies and ash
11* Sauce Contained fragments of glass
12. Bread Contained dirty mineral grease
13. Bre ad Contained foreign matter
14. Pie Contained piece of glass
15. Bottle of Mineral Water Contaminated with disinfectant
16. Buttered Bun Contained piece of steel
17. Bread Contained piece of blade
18. Milk Contained insects
19. Milk Contained sand and cement
20. Bread Contained foreign matter
21. Tin of Ham Unwholesome smell
22. Bread Contained brush hair
23. Bread Mouldy
24. Lamb Unwholesome smell
25. Bread Contained nail
26. Milk Sour
27. Milk Contained piece of glass
28. Jam Sponge Contained wasps
29. Bread Mouldy
30. Chicken Unwholesome
31. Cake Contained piece of wire
32. Bacon Contained maggots
33. Meat Pasties Mouldy
34. Sweets Contained maggots
35. Porridge Contained Beetle
36. Sweets Contained maggots
37. Bread Contained mould
38. Milk Contained comb
39. Bun Contained piece of wire
40. Marmalade Contained piece of glass
41. Cake Contained finger marks
42. Bread Contained amorpheus organic particles
43. Rice Contained maggots
44. Bread Contained needle
45. Bread Contaminated by dirt
46. Bread Contained machinery dirt
47. Sausage Contained mould
48. Doughnut Contained insect
49. Chocolate Contained piece of wood
50. Milk Contained piece of glass