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Southwark 1917
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, Borough of]
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EXAMINATION OF FOOD.
TABLE 49.
Showing the quantity of Foodstuffs examined during the year 1917 by the several Inspectors throughout the Borough (The amount shown in
this table is in addition to the total shown in Table 50.)
| Foodstuffs Examined. | Quantity and Weight found Unsound. | Surrendered by Owners. | Seized by Inspector. | Remarks. | |||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Foodstuffs. | Quantity. | Weight. | Quantity. | Weight. | Quantity. | Weight. | Quantity. | Weight. | |||||||||||||
| T. | C. | Q. | L. | T. | C. | Q. | L. | T. | C, | Q | L. | T. | C. | Q. | L. | ||||||
| Apples | Bags, baskets, barrels. &c. | 2 | 0 | 2 | 18 | 18 cases, 14 bags | 0 | 14 | 0 | 10 | 18 cases 14 bags | 0 | 14 | 0 | 10 | — | — | ... | Destroyed at Council's Depot. | ||
| Apricots, dried | 35 boxes | 0 | 9 | 3 | 8 | ||||||||||||||||
| Asparagus | 4 baskets | 0 | 0 | 1 | 20 | ||||||||||||||||
| Beef | Quarters, joints and pieces | 26 | 19 | 0 | 13 | 1 piece | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 piece | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | — | — | ... | Destroyed on premises where found | ||
| Beef, tinned | 30 cases. 70 tins | 0 | 13 | 1 | 16 | ||||||||||||||||
| Beef, salted | Pieces | 1 | 3 | 0 | 16 | ||||||||||||||||
| Beef Extract | 227 cases, 89 tins | 4 | 9 | 3 | 20 | 227 cases | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 227 cases | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | — | — | ... | Destroyed at Council's | ||
| Bacon | Boxes, bales, sides and pieces - | 95 | 11 | 2 | 27¾ | 501 sides, 22 bales, 238 pieces, 6 fore-ends | 15 | 14 | 3 | 22½ | 15 pieces | 0 | 0 | 2 | 26¾ | 27 pieces* | 0 | 2 | 0 | 15 | * Four summonses were taken out in regard to this 2 cwt. 15 lbs. Fines and costs were inflicted as follows: £2 4s., £60 10s., and £25 (the latter was in respect to two summonses which included 15 unsound fowls). 2qrs. 15¾lbs. were destroyed at the Council's depot, and 11 lbs. on the premises where it was found. 15 tons 12 cwts. 8¾ lbs. were released to be used in the proccess of soap boiling as follows:— 8 tons 15 cwts. 2 qrs. 18 lbs. to Messrs. J. Knight, Ltd., Silver-town, E.; 6 tons 6 cwt. 3 qrs. 4 lbs. to Mr. B. Waddington, Stratford, E.; 9 cwt. 2 qrs. 1¾ lbs. to Messrs. J. Page & Son, Isabella Street, S.E. |
| Carried forward | 131 | 8 | 0 | 26¾ | 19 | 11 | 1 | 11½ | 3 | 17 | 0 | 15¾ | 0 | 2 | 0 | 15 | |||||