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Lambeth 1966

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

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9. Can of apricots
10. 31b bag of Self-raising flour
11. Fruit drops
12. Tin of evaporated milk
13. Pies
14. 2/3 pint bottle of milk
15. Cornish pastie
16. Bread
17. Beef and pork sausages
18. Load (sliced)
19. Pork pie
20. Chocolates
21. Loaf of bread
22. 1/3 pint bottle of milk
23: Sliced peaches
24. Empty milk bottle
25. Steak and kidney pie
26. Pickled cucumber
27. Fried skate
28. Whole ham
29. Prawns
30. Cake (2)
31. Sweets
32. Pork pie
33. Sliced loaf
34. Apple pie
35. Strawberry jam
36. Loaf (sliced)
37. Baked beans
38. Tin of corned beef
39 Tin of Pork luncheon meat (2)
40. Bread
41. Loaf of bread
42. Slice of Ryvita
43. Tin of Luncheon meat
44. Bread roll
45. Sardines
46. Block salt
47. Potato crisps
48. Baked beans
Number of justified complaints 60
Number of complaints 127
Unpleasant taste
Tasted of Chloride, disinfectant smell
Wire in fruit drops
Metal pellet in tin
S tale (out of date)
Foreign body (cellophane or wax)
Fly in pastry
Mouldy
Black mould on beef sausages
Dust particles
Mould in meat
Custard flavour
Foreign body (moth)
Foreign body (bottle cap)
Contained flies
Foreign body (concrete)
Mould
Insect in jar
Unpleasant taste
Colour
Musty taste
Mouldy
Contained maggots
Mouldy
Mould
Unpleasant smell
Beetle in jar
Mouldy
Bee inside tin
Mouldy
Mouldy
Mouldy
Foreign body
Contained insect
Foreign body in centre of meat
Currant in roll
Fly in tin
Dirty - glassy
Foreign bodies
Contained pieces of glass
With regard to the justified complaints listed above the appropriate action was taken in all
cases.
SWIMMING POOLS
There are a number of swimming pools in the Borough, including Clapham
Manor Street baths and Streatham baths, which are the responsibility of the
Council. All of these baths are subject to regular inspections and sampling of
the water.