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
St Pancras 1948
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, Metropolitan Borough]
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Unsound Food Condemned and Destroyed. During the year 1948, the undermentioned unsound or diseased food was surrendered by the owners and dealt with by the Food Inspectors. Wherever possible the food was used for cattle feeding.
| Articles. | Quantity. | Articles. | Quantity. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apples | 163 lbs. | Marmalade | 8 lbs. |
| Apricots (dried) | 8 lbs. | Meat pies | 14 lbs.+220 |
| Apricot Pulp | 25 gallons + 15 cwt. | Meal rusk | 14 lbs. |
| Bacon | 31½ lbs. | Mutton | 3 lbs. |
| Barley | 7 lbs. | Oatmeal | 20 lbs. |
| Beef | 580 lbs. | Oranges | 164 |
| Biscuits | 158 pkts. | Ox kidneys | 11 lbs. |
| Black Pudding | 118 lbs. | Ox.tongue | 16½ lbs. |
| Butter beans | 54 lbs. | Pears | 4,450 lbs. |
| Cake extender | 2 cwts. | Peas | 15 lbs. |
| Cake flour | 48 doz. pkts. | Pepper | 6 doz. pkts. |
| Canned food | 3,841 tins. | Pickles | 139 jars. |
| Cereals | 10 doz. pkts. | Pigs lungs (lites) | 2 sacks. |
| Cheese | 1½ lbs. + 12 cartons. | Pork | 21½ lbs. |
| Chicken | 273 lbs. + 1 case. | Pork (canned) | 62 lbs. |
| Chocolate | 1½ cwts. | Potatoes | 1¾ cwts. |
| Compound fat | 112 lbs. | Poultry | 1 hamper |
| Confectionery | 92 lbs. | Prawns | 67 lbs. |
| Corned beef | 712 lbs. | Prunes | 175 lbs. |
| Corn flakes | 2 lbs. | Rabbits | 1,080 lbs. |
| Corned mutton | 24 lbs. | Rice substitute | 20 lbs. |
| Crabs | 1 crate. | Rolls | 118 |
| Crows | 7 sacks. | Salt | 2 cwts. + 6 doz. |
| Crumpets | 2,400 lbs. | pkts. | |
| Dates | 41 lbs. + 24 pkts. | Sausages | 186 lbs. |
| Ducks | 10 lbs. | Sausage meat | 50 lbs. |
| Egg powder | 36 pkts. | Short paste | 11 cwts. |
| Eggs | 700. | Soup cubes | 1,416 tins |
| Fish | 555 stone. | Spaghetti | 2 cwts. |
| Fishcakes | 72 | Spring cabbages | 1 ton 13 cwts. 1 qtr. |
| Flour | 157 lbs. | Sugar | 303 lbs. |
| Galantine | 12 lbs. | Tart bases | 11,400 |
| Geese | 47 lbs. | Tarts | 7,000 |
| Gravy browning | 4 pints + 15 pkts. | Tea | 106 lbs. |
| Gravy powder | 7 lbs. | Tomatoes | 2,860 |
| Hares | 1 cwt. | Tomato juice | 322 galls. |
| Ice cream powder | 98 lbs. | Tomato ketchup | 6 botts. |
| Jam | 75 lbs. | Tomato puree | 500 lbs. |
| Kippers | 32 stones. | Turkey | 4 lbs. |
| Macaroni | 8 lbs. | Veal | 16 lbs. |
| Margarine | 265 lbs. | Yeast | 9¾ lbs. |