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Wandsworth 1920
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]
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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
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shilling per head for mothers and sixpence per head for children.
This amounted during the year to £150.
The total number of visits paid respecting the supply of
milk and of meals amounted to 3,087.
Meat.
There are no public abattoirs in the Borough, and the
Sanitary Inspectors periodically inspect the slaughterhouses and
arrange as far as possible to be there on the days that slaughtering
of animals takes place.
112 inspections of the 11 slaughterhouses were made during
the year, and 1,617 carcases were examined by the Inspectors.
No action has been taken with regard to unsound meat, and no carcases were condemned during the year. By far the greater proportion of the meat sold in the Borough has been inspected in the Central Markets before being sold to retailers.
| In 1914. | In January, 1920. | In December, 1920. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Licensed slaughterhouses. | 13 | 11 | 11 |
Unsound Food.
1,010 lbs. of rabbits, 12 turkeys, six geese, 12 fowls, 12
pheasants, one partridge, one wood pigeon, 1,244¼ lbs. of bacon,
1,158 lbs. of beef, 268 lbs. of mutton, one box of tripe, 44 lbs.
of sausages, four boxes of roes, four boxes of rock salmon, 176
lbs. of mackerel, four boxes of whiting, nine barrels of herrings,
one trunk of turbot, 398 lbs. of coal fish, 101 lbs. of haddock, one
trunk of sea bream, one trunk of cod, three barrels of crabs, 15
boxes of kippers, one bag of winkles, 190 boxes of tomatoes,
three bags of sprouts, six cwts. of potatoes, 1½ cases of apples,