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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 1906

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

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Table: TABLE 50.Showing the number and description of samples of Foodstuffs taken during 1906 at the various wharves and landing places in the Borough and the number of such samples found to be unsound.

TABLE 50.

Showing the number and description of samples of Foodstuffs taken during 1906 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.
NumberSoundUnsoundNumberSoundUnsound
Bacon165165---
Beef1515-88-
Ducks2424-7878-
Fowls3333-1212-
Hams33----
Pork241014---
Ptarmigan11----
Salted Beef.11----
Sheep's Carcases88-105105-
Eggs13041284208080-
Herrings5050----
Herring Roe11----
Babbits5353-312312-
Apples88----
Bags of Potatoes1111-44-
Onions2-2---
Plums30219---
Strawberries88----
Tinned Salmon15651075490---
Sardines1010----
Tinned Beef199199----
Tinned Lobster48462---
Tinned Babbit88----
Tinned Tongues396396----
Tinned Apples11-11---
Tinned Apple Pulp30026337---
Tinned Apricots37129774---
Tinned Apricot Pulp30219---
Egg Liquid3737----
Tinned Blackcurrant Pulp12-12---
Tinned Peaches3-3---
Tinned Pears2102019---
Tinned Pineapple8787----
Tinned Raspberry Pulp20515---
Total50484341707599599-