London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

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Acton 1958

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Acton]

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Flour and Flour Products 16 pkts.
60 lbs.
103 tins
Fruit, tinned 17,527 tins
dried 88 pkts.
Ham, tinned 99 lbs.
Meat: —
Fresh 18,019 lbs.
Tinned 1,276 tins
Corned beef 381 tins
Offal 100 tins
Milk, Condensed 1,007 tins
Pastes, Pickles, etc.531 jars
Poultry: —
Chickens 1 tin
Preserves 865 tins
Puddings, sweet and savoury 426 tins
Soup, Strained Foods, etc. 504 tins
Sugar 2 cwt.
Vegetables 2,643 tins
Miscellaneous 29 jars, etc.
30 lbs.
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.