London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

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Stoke Newington 1948

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Stoke Newington, The Metropolitan Borough]

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Dirty Milk Bottles.
During the year five complaints were received regarding dirty milk bottles, three of which were
dealt with by warning letters to the firms concerned, and two by legal proceedings. The two latter
cases were dismissed under the Probation of Offenders Act and costs of £10 10s. Od. were awarded to
the Council.
Pharmacy and Poisons.
The names and addresses of 45 persons remained on the Council's list of persons entitled to sell
Poisons under Part II of the Pharmacy & Poisons Act 1933.
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CONDEMNED FOOD.
The following is a list of foods condemned during the year by the Sanitary Inspectors as being
unfit for human consumption:—
Grape Fruit Juice 20 tins.
Cereal 38 pkts.
Oats 6 lb.
Tomato Juice 67 tins.
Cake Mixture lxl6 oz. pkt.
Semolina 1x8 oz. pkt.
Orange Juice 13 tins.
Confectionery 4 cwt. 25½ lb.
Ryvita 30 pkts.
Gherkins 4 jars.
Syrup 11 tins.
Treacle 2 tins.
Spaghetti 17 tins.
Caster Sugar 8½ lb.
Emulol (Oil) half barrel.
Admix 224 1b.
Flour 3 cwt. 4 lb.
Date, Peach, Treacle Puddings 9
Sauce 24 botts. assorted.
Beans 1,441 x 1 litre bottled.
Paste 41 jars assorted.
Suet 8 x ½ lb. pkts.
Apple Jelly and Baby Food 2 x 1½ lb. and 24 X 4½ oz.
Gravy Powder 5 tins.
Pickles 10 bottles.
Chocolate Spread 8x1 lb. tin.
Vinegar 7 X 2 oz.
Pineapple Juice 24 tins.
Pudding Mixture 492 tins.
Chickens 1 X 50 lb. case.
Salad Cream 1 jar.
Fruit Cake. 1
Fish 269 large cans, 1,992 small cans, 4,512'4 lb
fresh.
Fruit 571 large cans, 8 bottles, 204 small cans.
Meat 273 large cans, 356 small cans, 905 lb. fresh
Meat Extract 28 small cans, 7 small jars.
Meat Preparations and Sausages 60 large cans, 16 small cans, lb. fresh.
Milk, full cream 189 large cans, 16 small cans.
Milk evaporated 518 large cans, 1,100 small cans.
Milk, machine skimmed 228 large cans, 17 small cans.
Preserves 351 large cans, 24 small cans.
Soup 121 large cans, 79 small cans.
Vegetables 588 large cans, 112 small cans.
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