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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 1957
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Acton]
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| Fruit, tinned | 23,512 tins |
| Ham, tinned | 86 lbs. |
| ,, fresh | 116 lbs. |
| Meat: — | |
| Fresh | 14,306 lbs. |
| Tinned | 1,869 tins |
| Corned beef | 278 tins |
| Offal | 540 tins |
| Milk, Condensed | 1,108 tins |
| Pastes, Pickles, etc. | 78 jars |
| Poultry: — | |
| Chickens | 15 |
| ,, | 9 pkts. |
| Preserves | 513 tins |
| Puddings, sweet and savoury | 346 tins |
| Soup, Strained Foods, etc. | 693 tins |
| Vegetables | 3,759 tins |
| Miscellaneous | 201 jars, etc. |
DISPOSAL OF CONDEMNED FOOD
There has been no change in the methods of disposing of condemned
and surrendered food noted in the report. At the large
slaughterhouse and bacon factory in the Borough all diseased or
infected carcases, and parts of carcases, are destroyed in special
plant producing inedible material—bone meal, fertiliser, etc.—
under supervision of the Council's Meat Inspectors.
Apart from condemned food material dealt with at these
slaughterhouse premises all surrendered diseased, or unsound, food
is disposed of for animal feeding purposes, or otherwise as appropriate.