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 1968
[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 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Beans | 10 | 2 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| Butter | 414 | 2 | 2 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Casings | 6 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| Cheese | 2 | 15 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
| Coffee | 5 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| Egg products | 66 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||
| Fish | 2 | 10 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Flour | 62 | 10 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Fruit (dried) | 12 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
| Fruitf canned) | 70 | 5 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Fruit juice | ||||||||||||||||
| (canned) | 27 | 19 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Ginger | 10 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| Meat | 12 | 15 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Meat | ||||||||||||||||
| (canned) | 52 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Nuts | 7 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 50 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
| Offals | 6 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||
| Onions | 2 | 10 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Peas | 4 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
| Potatoes | 16 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| Prawns | 2 | 15 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | |||||||||
| Sago | 8 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| Tapioca | 4 | 14 | 2 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Tea | 3 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||
| Tomato puree | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Vegetables | ||||||||||||||||
| (frozen) | 7 | 3 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Various | 16 | 5 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Totals | 109 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 501 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 67 | 18 | 2 | 0 | 181 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
92 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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