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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 1955
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Acton]
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There are two large wholesale grocery Depots within the
Borough, and hence surrenders of canned and packeted goods are
made to this Authority; these surrenders constitute the major part
of such foodstuff noted.
The following list collated for convenience shows some details of the surrendered food-stuffs:
| Cheese | 3,747 lbs. |
| Cream | 10 tins |
| Fish, wet | 10 stone |
| ,, paste | 38,881 tins |
| „ tinned | 403 tins |
| ,, shell | 3 |
| Flour and Flour Products | 97 tins |
| „ | 158 pkts. |
| Fruit, tinned | 19,153 tins |
| ,, dried | 438 lbs. |
| ,, fresh | 1,415 banana stems |
| Ham, tinned | 370 lbs. |
| Meat: — | |
| Fresh | 12,990 lbs. |
| „Tinned | 1,113 tins |
| Corned beef | 161 tins |
| Offal | 81 lbs. |
| /„ | 42 tins |
| Milk, Condensed | 905 tins |
| Pastes, Pickles, etc. | 103 jars |
| Poultry: — | |
| Chickens | 77½ lbs. |
| Turkey | 12 lbs. |
| Preserves | 728 tins |
| Puddings, sweet and savoury | 64 tins |
| Soup, Strained Foods, etc. | 1,437 tins |
| Vegetables | 2,343 tins |
| Miscellaneous | 25 jars |