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Unsound Food
The following quantities of unsound foodstuffs were disposed of under the Public Health
(Imported Food) Regulations and the Public Health Acts:
Wharves 77 tons
London Fruit Exchange
and Spitalfields Market 89 tons
Other Premises 126 tons
TOTAL 292 tons
About 12 tons of unsound food was allowed to be used for chemical or animal feeding
purposes or for manufacturing purposes other than for human consumption, the remainder being
delivered to, or collected by, the Cleansing Department at whose riverside depot it wa6
mixed with household refuse, under supervision, and removed by barge to a controlled tipping
site in Essex.
Condemnation certificates numbering 1,053 were issued in respect of unsound food in 1968.
Unsound Food etc. - Complaints
Complaints made by members of the public as to the alleged unsound condition, etc.' of
foods, and which were investigated during the year, numbered 31.
The complaints referred to -
A11eged unsound condition:
Apple pies 2, corned beef 1, butter 1, cheese 1, chicken 2, jam 1, lemons 1, minced meat
1, mushrooms 1, pancake roll 1, pies 2, raisin bran 1, sausages 1, canned tomatoes 1, canned
mixed vegetables 1, yoghourt 1.
Alleged dirty condition and/or foreign body or deposit:
Baby Food 1, corned beef 1, bread rolls 1, bread 2, cake 1, cheese 1, chicken 1, chocolate
eclair 1, grapenuts 1, peanuts 1, sausage 1.
HOUSING
The number of commonwealth immigrants coming into the borough continues to demand
vigilance to be exercised by all sections of the department not least the environmental health
section, particularly in respect of overcrowding and houses in multiple occupation.
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