Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, Borough of]
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Commodity | Disposed of for purposes other than human food | Released under supervision of other local authority | Re-exported | Destroyed | ||||||||||||
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T | C | Q | L | T | C | Q | L | T | C | Q | L | T | C | Q | L | |
Bacon | 4 | 2 | 0 | |||||||||||||
Butter | 5 | 9 | l | 0 | ||||||||||||
Casings | 8 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||
Cheese | 7 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 46 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 12 | 3 | 16 | ||||
Chestnuts | 95 | 19 | 2 | 6 | ||||||||||||
Coconut | 6 | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||
Coffee | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
Egg products | 7 | 4 | 2 | 0 | ||||||||||||
Fish | 1 | 17 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
Fruit | 31 | 11 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
Fruit (dried) | 4 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 20 | ||||||||
Fruit and fruit juice (canned) | 86 | 9 | 3 | 26 | ||||||||||||
Gravy base | 10 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||
Groundnuts | 76 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
Lentils | 3 | 16 | 0 | 3 | ||||||||||||
Meat | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 4 | ||||
Milk (canned) | 57 | 13 | 1 | 8 | ||||||||||||
Milk powder | 111 | 14 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
Pasta | 4 | 5 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
Peas | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
Peppers | 14 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||
Prawns (frozen) | 42 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 0 | |||||||||
Tomato puree | 17 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
Turmeric | 14 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||
Various | 28 | 16 | 2 | 18 | ||||||||||||
Totals | 198 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 20 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 156 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 339 | 11 | 2 | 17 |
58 consignments of imported food were detained and were subsequently released for re-export, manufacture
and treatment, animal feeding or destruction, all with the necessary safeguards.