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Barking 1939
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barking]
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(b) Supervision of Food Preparing Premises.
The number of premises in the district at the end of the year at which the following foods are prepared were:—
| Sausages | 26 |
| Potted Meat and Brawn | 4 |
| Roast and/or Boiled Ham | 6 |
| Pressed, Pickled, Cooked, etc., Beef and Tongue | 39 |
| Roast Pork | 5 |
| Bacon | 1 |
| Boiled Crabs and Lobsters | 1 |
| Pickled Fish | 8 |
| Pickled Onions | 1 |
| Smoked Fish | 7 |
| Bakehouses | 9 |
(c) Unsound Food.
The following list gives particulars of unsound
food destroyed during the year;-
70 Ibs. Frozen Ox Cheeks.
70 lbs. Kippers (5 boxes @ 14 lbs.)
7 lbs. Cooked Gammon Bacon.
1 lb. 2 ozs. Pears.
200 lbs. Chicken.
265 lbs. Beef.
195 lbs. Mutton and Lamb.
5 stone Coley.
20 lbs. Lambs Livers.
203 lbs. Beef.
60 lbs. Beef.
60 lbs. Ox Livers.
(3) FOOD POISONING.
There were 5 cases of food poisoning notified
during the year. These were investigated and any
necessary action taken.
(4) ADULTERATION, ETC.
I am indebted to Mr. A. Horsnell, Chief Food and
Drugs Officer for the Metropolitan Area of the Essex County
Council, for the particulars of Samples purchased and
submitted for analysis during the period 1st January to
30th September, 1939. These samples were submitted for
chemical examination to Dr. Bernard Dyer, the County Analyst
Great Tower Street, London, with the following results -
Milk 15
Butter 24
Other 102
Total 141
At the 1st October, 1939, the Council became the
administrative authority for the purposes of the Food and
Drugs Act (1938). The first quarterly report of the
Public Analyst, who continues to be Dr. Bernard Dyer, as