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Southwark 1913
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, Borough of]
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Table showing the total quantity of Foodstuffs examined at the wharves from January 1st to December 31st, 1913, inclusive, the quantity found to be unsound, the notices served, and the method of disposal of the unsound portion.
| Foodstuffs. | Quantity and Weight examined. | Weight found to be unsound. | Surrendered by Owner. | Seized by Inspector. | Notices served. | How unsound portion disposed of. | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quantity. | Weigl | it. | (a) Detention | W Release | ||||||||||
| T. | C. | Q. | L. | T. | C. | Q. | L. | |||||||
| Apricots, tinned | 1529 cases | 40 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | Yes | — | 7 | 1 | Destroyed at Council's Depot, Manor Place |
| Apples, do. | 1338 cases | 21 | 17 | 0 | 16 | 5 | 10 | 3 | 12 | Yes | — | 7 | 1 | do do |
| Apples, dried | 15 cases | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | — | ||||||||
| Asparagus, tinned | 104 cases | 1 | 6 | 0 | 16 | — | Destroyed at Council's depot, Manor Place | |||||||
| Apples | 372 cases | 6 | 1 | 3 | 27 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | Yes | — | 1 | — | |
| Beef, tinned | 1112 cases, 289 tins | 35 | 13 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 11 | 1 | 6 | Yes | — | 3 | 1 | do do |
| Bacon | 13968 bales, 24 boxes, 30 sides | 1416 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 23 | Yes a portion | — | 3 | 10 | 1 side (3 qrs.) burned in furnace on premises where found. 2 cwts. 2 qrs. 3 lbs., destroyed at Council's Depot, Manor Place. 2 qrs. was released to J. Knight, Ltd., Silvertown, E., to be used for soap boiling. 1 side (3 qrs. 20 lbs.) was found to have the glands absent and was reshipped to Sweden. |
| Beef, frozen, &c. | 27856 hinds, 11514 crops, 2002 fores 680 flanks, 206 clods, 84 rumps, and loins, 315 pieces, 22 casks, 4 buttocks, 32 bags | 2373 | 5 | 3 | 27 | 59 | 59 | |||||||
| Beef, salted | 2909 barrels, 291 tierces, 100 kegs, 72 joints, 25 flanks | 297 | 13 | 0 | 25 | |||||||||
| Beans, "butter" | 24 bags | 0 | 18 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | ||||
| Beans, tinned | 95 cases | 1 | 13 | 2 | 8 | — | — | — | — | — | « | |||
| Beef, extract of | 22 cases | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | * This Butter was shipped from New Zealand, per S. S. " Turakina." It was damaged by fire and otherwise on the voyage, the vessel having to be beached at Rio. The whole of the butter when it was landed in Southwark, was in my opinion, unfit for human food. It was disposed of as follows For soap making, to Willson's Wharf, Tooley Street, 14 tons, 6 cwts. For soap making to J Knight, Ltd., Silvertown, E., 40 tons, 1 cwt., 1 qr. 1 or the purpose of being cleansed by being treated with steam, 891 tons, 19 cwts, 2 qrs. were released to be sent to America or the Continent, whilst 35 tons, 2 cwts, were released to different destinations in the British Isles, upon similar undertakings made on the part of the owners. | |||
| Butter | 39268 boxes, 31 casks | 983 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 981 | 8 | 3 | 0* | Yes | 2 | 1 | ||
| Carried forward | 5178 | 13 | 0 | 7 | 990 | 18 | 3 | 17 | 82 | 73 | ||||