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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
Marylebone 1939
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Marylebone, Metropolitan Borough]
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Unsound Food.
On a great many occasions the inspector was called by vendors to examine
articles of food, and to accept surrender of such as were unsound or unwholesome or
unfit for food. Table 17 contains a list of the articles dealt with in this way.
TABLE 17.
Unsound Food Condemned and Destroyed.
| Meat— | Tinned Goods— | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Beef | 256 lbs. | Corned Beef | 131 tins |
| Mutton | 68 „ | Ham | 22 „ |
| Pork | 20 „ | Canned Pork | 13 „ |
| Calf | 1 | Gammons | 7 „ |
| Pigs Heads | 4 | Brawn | 26 „ |
| Pigs Plucks | 6 cwt. 7 lbs. | Veal | 22 „ |
| Lambs Livers | 50 „ | Ox Tongue | 5„ |
| Lambs Brains | 180 „ | Sausages | 2 „ |
| Ox Livers | 123 „ | Plums | 480 „ |
| Beef Caul Fat | 6 cwts. | Pears | 432 „ |
| Strawberries | 80 „ | ||
| Tomato Puree | 5 „ | ||
| Condensed Milk | 36 „ | ||
| Cod Fillets | 10 stone | ||
| Sprats | 2 kits | ||
| Herring | 5 boxes | Bacon | 19 cwts. |
| Kippers | 4 „ | Chickens | 140 lbs. |
| Mackerel | 2 „ | Rabbits | 35 lbs. |
| Haddock | 2 „ | Cucumbers | 56 boxes |
Public Health (Meat) Regulations, 1924.
These regulations continue to work smoothly. Frequent inspections were made,
but in no case was action found to be necessary.
Slaughterhouses.
At the moment the only slaughter house in the Borough is that at the Zoological
Society's premises in Regent's Park. The slaughtering done is for the food of the
animals in the gardens and humane killers are used. Eight inspections were made in
1939.
Slaughtermen.
Three licences to slaughter or stun animals, granted to skilled slaughtermen
pursuant to section 3 of the Slaughter of Animals Act, 1933, were renewed during
the year.
Offensive Businesses.
There was only one premises within the Borough where a business classed
as offensive was carried on, that being the slaughter of poultry. The food inspector
made 10 visits, but no cause for complaint was found.
Premises used for Food Preparation.
At the end of 1939, 105 premises were registered for the preparation or manufacture
of foods (other than ice cream) intended for sale, and 221 inspections were
made by the food inspector.