Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Chislehurst]
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APPENDIX 4. UNSOUND FOOD-CONDEMNED.
item. | Condition. tons. | cwts. | qrs. | lbs. | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Bacon | rancid | 1 | 17 | ||
Beef | bruised | 2 | 1 | 16 | |
Beef | bone taini | 7 | 3 | — | |
Brawn | decomposed | 3 | 11 | ||
Butter | rancid .. .. ... | 2 | 6 | ||
Cake | unwholesome | 3 | |||
Cake flour | Sour, unsound | 1 | — | — | |
Canned beans (containers blown, punctured or perforated | 14 | ||||
„ chocolate spread | „ „ „ | 6 | |||
„ fish | „ „ „ | 1 | 1 | 23 | |
, fruit | „ „ „ | 3 | 2 | — | |
„ fruit juice | „ „ „ | 2 | |||
„ jam | „ „ „ | 2 | 1 | 5 | |
„ marmalade | „ „ „ | 8 | |||
„ meat | „ „ „ | 12 | 3 | 4 | |
„ meat puddings | „ „ „ | 1 | |||
„ milk | „ „ „ | 10 | — | 19 | |
„ paste | 11 | ||||
„ peas | „ „ „ | 23 | |||
„ soup | „ „ „ | 1 | — | 7 | |
„ spaghetti | „ „ „ | 3 | |||
„ tomatoes | „ „ „ | 11 | |||
,, vegetables | „ „ „ | 9 | 3 | 1 | |
Cereals | contaminated | 8 | |||
Cheese | mouldy | 6 | 1 | ||
Chickens | decomposed | 1 | 2 | 11 | |
Cocoa | decomposed | 2 | |||
Coffee | oil contamination | 7 | |||
Coffee essence | unsound | 1 | |||
Ducks | decomposed | 16 | |||
Egg, dried | mouldy | 1 | |||
Eggs | decomposed | 16 | |||
Fat, cooking | unsound | 2 | |||
Fish | decomposed | 1 | 8 | 2 | 17 |
Fish cakes | decomposed | 1 | |||
Flour | contaminated | 1 | 23 | ||
Fruit | unsound | 1 | 2 | ||
Fruit jam | unsound | 15 | |||
Jam | unsound | 2 | |||
Macaroni | unsound | 2 | 14 | ||
Milk, dried | unsound | 2 | — | — | |
Mutton | decomposed, etc | 1 | 22 | ||
Oatmeal | stale | 2 | |||
Orange juice | decomposed | 3 | |||
Paste, meat | unsound | 7 | |||
Pastry mix | unsound | 1 | |||
Pickles | unsound | 1 | 3 | ||
Powder, baking | deteriorated quality | 2 | |||
Rabbits | decomposed | 6 | 21 | ||
Salad cream | sour | 6 | 2 | 7 | |
Sausages | decomposed | 12 | |||
Sugar | contaminated | 1 | 19 | ||
Sweets | broken glass contaminated | 15 | |||
Tea | contaminated | 13 | |||
Tripe | decomposed | 1 | — | ||
Vegetables | decomposed | 23 | |||
5 | — | 3 | 4 |