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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

Acton 1927

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Acton]

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1927
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Table: table IUNSOUND FOOD SURRENDERED DURING 1927.

table I

UNSOUND FOOD SURRENDERED DURING 1927.

(a) Diseased Meat.
Tuberculosis.
Pork.
4 Pigs' Carcases4 bellies
1 side of Pork1,026 lbs. pieces of Pork
4 Forequarters300 Pigs' heads
2 Hindquarters142 Pigs' plucks
1 Shoulder1,872 lbs. Chitterlings
Beef.
7 Ox Carcases and Offal4 Ox Plucks
3 Forequarters52 Calves Plucks
1 breast27 Calves Livers
3 Hindquarters1 Tripe
3 loins2 Ox Kidneys
10 Ox heads and Tongues
Veal.
1 side with offal2 Thin Flanks
7 Forequarters2 Middles
1 Rib35 lbs. pieces of Veal
3 Rumps and Loins
Parasites.
2 sets of Ox Lungs203 Sheep's Livers
347 Sheep's Plucks1 set of Goat's Lungs
1,169 Sheep's Lungs
Pleurisy.
S Breasts of Veal29 Breasts of Mutton
4 Calyes' Hearts3 Shoulders of Mutton
18 sets of Calves' Lungs
Pyaemia.
1 Calf's Carcase1 Sheep's Carcase & Offal
Dropsy.
19 Sheep's Carcases2 flanks of Mutton
7 Calves' Carcases & Offal
Actinomycosis.
4 Ox heads and tongues4 Calves' heads
Septic Pneumonia.
1 Forequarter of Veal2 Forequarters of Mutton