[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, Borough of] page 90 91

Southwark 1906

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, Borough of]

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Table: TABLE 45—continued.

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TABLE 45—continued.

No.	Description of Sample.	Brand or Name of Packers on Label.	External appearance.	Appearance of Food when opened.	Appearance of Food when cut up.	Amount of Fluid in Tin.	Taste of Contents.	Smell of Contents.	Quality of Meat.	Where purchased.
1539	Ox Tongue	Signal Brand	Tin battered about	Mouldy and offensive	Decomposed	None	Unfit to be tasted	Sour and mouldy	Bad	do.
1540	Veal and Ham Paté	Peter Keevil	Sound	Sound	Sound	None	Not tasted	Highly spiced	Unsatisfactory appearance	36, Sumner Street
1541	Gravy Soup	Libby, McNeill & Libby	Sound	Sound	—	All fluid	Good	Wholesome	Unable to state	107, Park Street
1542	Sheep's Tongues	Libby, McNeill & Libby, Chicago	Sound	Blackened, apparently by action of tin on contents	Sound	Very little	Sweet	Wholesome	Good	do.
1543	Whole Rabbit	Kaikanui Packing Co., New Zealand	Sound	Sound	Good	Small quantity	Sweet	Wholesome	Good	do.
1544	Tinned Oysters, Fresh Cove	Thos. Kersett & Co.. Baltimore, M.D.. U.S.A. Imperial Brand	Sound	Sound	-	Large quantity (half full)	Not tasted	Wholesome	Good	126, Borough High Street
1545	Corned Beef	Fray Bentos, Liebig Extract of Meat Co.	Sound	Sound	Good	None	Sweet	Wholesome	Fair	155, Borough High Street
1540	Lunch Tongue	Armour Canning Co., Chicago	Apprntly. sound	Jelly decomposed. Shrunken appearance	Unsound	None	Not tastable	Offensive	Unsound	126, Borough High Street
1547	Boiled Babbit	Osborne Brand	Sound	Good	Good	4 ozs.	Sweet	Wholesome	Fair	84, East Street
1548	Boiled Rabbit	Anderson & Co., Phoenix Brand	Sound	Changing in colour	Slightly offensive	2 ozs.	Not tasted	Slightly offensive	Unsound	do.
1549	Veal and Ham	Collett, Dodds & Co., London	Sound	Apparently a mixture of lard and meat	Dubious looking	None	Not tasted	Highly spiced	Doubtful	do.
1550	Turkey and Tongue	Collett, Dodds & Co., London	Sound	Apparently a mixture of lard and meat	Dubious looking	None	Not tasted	Highly spiced	Doubtful	do.
1551	Strasburg Meat	Collett, Dodds & Co., London	Sound	Nasty looking	Usual base of lard & chopped meat	None	Not tasted	Highly spiced unpleasant	Bad	do.
1552	Bloater Paste	C. Yallop & Co., Yarmouth	Sound	Evil looking	Bad	None	Not tasted	Offensive rancid grease	Unwholesome	do.