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Southwark 1915
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, Borough of]
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TABLE S3.
Table showing the total quantity of Foodstuffs examined at the wharves during the year 1915, 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. | Weight. | (a) Detention. | (b) Release | |||||||||||
| T. | c. | Q. | L. | T. | c. | Q- | L. | |||||||
| Apples, tinned | 801 cases | 12 | 16 | 2 | 16 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 8 | Yes | - | 2 | 1 | Destroyed at Council's Depot, Manor Place |
| Apples | 37 barrels, 2 bags | 2 | 8 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | - | — | ||||
| Apricots, tinned | 1163 cases, 970 tins | 30 | 18 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 4 | Yes | 3 | - | Destroyed at Council's Depot, Manor Place | |
| Anchovies, do. | 124 cases, 1045 tins | 7 | 2 | 2 | 22 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 18 | Yes | - | 5 | 1 | do do |
| Beef, frozen | 23970 crops, 23564 hinds, 4342 fores, 185 flanks,12bags, | 2777 | 12 | 2 | 13 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 25 | Yes | 43 | 40 | Treated with carbolic acid and released to Messrs. E. Cook, Bow, E., to be used in the process of soap boiling. | |
| Beef, tinned | 1400 buttocks,620 pieces, 46 quarters 6651 cases. 281 tins | 170 | 4 | 0 | 13 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 17 | Yes | 17 | 2 | Destroyed at Council's Depot, Manor Place | |
| Beef, salted | 243 barrels, 125 pes. 100 cases | 31 | 13 | 2 | 20 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | Yes | - | 2 | — | do do |
| Butter | 323 boxes, 64 casks, 26 tubs | 13 | 11 | 2 | 0 | — | — | - | 1 | 1 | — | |||
| Bacon | 65 pieces, 196 bales, 119 sides, 478 boxes, 53 crates, 8 cases, 1 parcel | 160 | 0 | 0 2 | *2 | 16 | 0 | 16 | Yes | - | 20 | 10 | Treated with carbolic acid:—1 ton 16 cwt. 3 qrs. 16 lbs. released to Messrs. E. Cook, Bow, E., and 8 cwt. 2 qrs. 22 lbs. to Messrs. J. Knight, Silvertown, E., to be used in the process of soap boiling. The remainder was destroyed at the Council's Depot, Manor Place. | |
| 3eans, tinned | 199 cases | 4 | 7 | 3 | 0 | — | - | - | — | — | — | |||
| Beef Powder | 1000 cases | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | - | - | — | — | — | |||
| 3arley | — | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | - | - | — | 1 | Released to J. Ross, 252, East Street, to be used for poultry feeding. |
| Condensed Milk | 12528 cases | 239 | 0 | 3 | 26 | *73 | 5 | 2 | 3 | Yes | 17 | 8 | *4065 cases weighing 72 tons 16 cwt. 2 qrs. 11 lbs. were released to various addresses in the country under guarantee that the milk would be used for pig or poultry feeding. The remainder was destroyed at Council's Depot, Manor Place. | |
| Casings, Ox | 515 casks, 22 tierces 27 barrels | 158 | 2 | 0 | 0 | — | - | 8 | 16 | — | ||||
| Casings, Sheep's | 207 casks, 30 cases, 26 tierces, 25 barrels | 71 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||
| Casings, Hog | 12 casks, 7 cases, 37 boxes | 3 | 14 | 1 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| Cheese | 254boxes,44 crates, 15 cases, 15 baskets, 149 cheeses | 14 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 0 | Yes | 3 | 2 | Destroyed at Council's Depot, Manor Place | |
| Carried forward | 3722 | 13 | 2 | 11 | 90 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 121 | 83 | ||||