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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
Southwark 1905
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, Borough of]
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TABLE 54
Showing the number and description of samples of Foodstuffs taken during 1905 at the various wharves and landing places in the Borough and the number of such samples found to be unsound.
| Description of sample taken. | Taken in | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (a) St. Saviour's Ward. | (b) Christchurch Ward. | |||||
| Number | Sound | Unsound | Number | Sound | Unsound | |
| Tinned Apples | 27 | 12 | 15 | — | — | — |
| Coffee Beans | 50 | 48 | 2 | — | — | — |
| Cocoa Beans | 25 | 25 | — | — | — | — |
| Ptarmigan and Black Game | 10 | — | 10 | — | — | — |
| Pheasants | 24 | 24 | — | — | — | — |
| Ox Tongues | 385 | 308 | 77 | — | — | — |
| Sardines | 100 | 100 | — | — | — | — |
| Tinned Peas | 3 | 3 | — | — | — | — |
| Bacon | 221 | 220 | 1 | — | _ | — |
| Eggs | 189 | 130 | 59 | — | — | — |
| Liquid Eggs | 33 | 23 | 10 | — | — | — |
| Ducks | 9 | 9 | — | — | — | — |
| Bullocks Carcases | 2 | 2 | — | 38 | 38 | — |
| Tinned Pears | 29 | 29 | — | — | — | — |
| Preserved Peas | 10 | 10 | — | 2 | 2 | — |
| Rabbits | 245 | 245 | .— | — | — | — |
| Tinned Apricots | 220 | 220 | — | — | — | — |
| Tinned Peaches | 9 | 1 | 8 | — | — | __ |
| Tinned Salmon | 407 | 395 | 12 | — | — | _ |
| Tinned Rabbits | 32 | 31 | 1 | — | — | _ |
| Sheep's Carcases | 3 | 3 | — | 171 | 171 | _ |
| Pigs Carcases | 35 | 35 | — | — | — | — |
| Salted Beef or Pork | 14 | 14 | — | — | — | — |
| Hams | 92 | 92 | — | — | — | — |
| Tinned Tomatoes | 65 | 43 | 22 | — | — | — |
| Tinned Beef | 124 | 82 | 42 | — | v | — |
| Raspberry Pulp | 22 | 16 | 6 | — | — | — |
| Apricot Pulp | 98 | 84 | 14 | — | — | — |
| Black Currant Pulp | 10 | — | 10 | — | — | — |
| Poultry, Fowls and Ducks | 346 | 346 | — | — | — | — |
| Jellied Veal | 2 | 2 | — | — | — | — |
| Tinned Pineapple | 12 | 10 | 2 | — | — | — |
| Total | 2853 | 2562 | 291 | 211 | 211 | — |