London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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 1965
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, Borough of]
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DISPOSAL OF UNSOUND OR CONTAMINATED FOOD
| Commodity | Disposed of for purposes other than human food | Released under supervision of other local authority | Re-exported | Destroyed | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| T | C | Q | L | T | C | Q | L | T | C | Q | L | T | C | Q | L | |
| Bacon | 17 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| Butter | 1 | 12 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Cereals | 12 | 15 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Cheese | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 19 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||
| Egg Products | 15 | 0 | 0 | 143 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| Fish | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Flour | 14 | 13 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Fruit, Fresh | 13 | 7 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Fruit, Dried | 9 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| Fruit, Canned | 46 | 15 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Fruit Juice | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Kangaroo Meat | 12 | 4 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Lumpfish Roe | 16 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| Marmalade | 14 | 5 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Meat, Carcase | 26 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||
| Meat, Canned | 56 | 5 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Nuts | 57 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 19 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| Nutmegs | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Offals | 1 | 10 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Onions | 4 | 10 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Peas | 19 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| Peas, Frozen | 2 | 12 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Potatoes | 480 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Tea | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Tomato Puree | 40 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 6 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
| Vegetables | 18 | 12 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Various | 53 | 8 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Totals | 117 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 26 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 198 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 727 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
186 consignments of imported food were detained and subsequently were released for re-export,
manufacture and treatment, animal feeding or destruction, all with the necessary safeguards.
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