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 1971
[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 | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.