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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Item. | Condition. | tons. | cwts | qrs. | lbs. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Apples | bruised | 18 | |||
Bacon | unsound | 2 | 14 | ||
Barley Flakes | mites | 2 | 4 | ||
Beef | bone taint, etc. | 5 | 3 | 23 | |
Beef | tuberculosis | 1 | 2 | 21 | |
Butter | unsound | 1 | |||
Cake | rancid, etc. | 3 | 10 | ||
Canned baked beans | containers blown, perforated or punctured, etc. | 20 | |||
„ chocolate spread | „ „ „ | 2 | |||
„ fish | „ „ „ | 1 | — | 9 | |
„ fruit | „ „ „ | 12 | 1 | 11 | |
„ fruit juice | „ „ „ | 1 | |||
„ ham | decomposed | 14 | |||
„ jam | containers blown, perforated or punctured, etc. | 3 | _ | 21 | |
„ marmalade | „ „ „ | 2 | 4 | ||
„ meat | „ „ „ | 6 | 3 | 10 | |
„ milk | „ „ „ | 1 | 10 | 2 | 8 |
„ Mincemeat | „ „ „ | 14 | |||
„ mint sauce | „ „ „ | 2 | |||
„ paste | „ „ „ | 26 | |||
„ peas | „ „ „ | 2 | 15 | ||
„ pudding | „ „ „ | 2 | |||
„ soup | „ „ „ | 2 | 16 | ||
„ spaghetti | „ „ „ | 10 | |||
„ syrup | „ „ „ | 12 | |||
„ tomatoes | „ „ „ | 19 | |||
„ treacle | „ „ „ | 2 | |||
„ vegetables | „ „ „ | 7 | — | 23 | |
Cereals | vermin infested | 2 | 2 | 27 | |
Cheese | decomposed | 2 | 4 | ||
Dates | infested | 2 | 1 | 20 | |
Eggs, fresh | decomposed | 1 | 11 | ||
Eggs, frozen | „ | 1 | — | ||
Fat | „ | 8 | |||
Figs | „ | 3 | 7 | ||
Fish | „ | 13 | 1 | 23 | |
Flour | contaminated | 3 | 13 | ||
Fondant | „ | 13 | |||
Horseradish | unsound | 3 | |||
Jam | contaminated and fermented | 13 | |||
Junket | unsound | 2 | |||
Lamb | decomposed | 3 | 24 | ||
Margarine | „ | 1 | |||
Mayonnaise | unsound | 12 | |||
Milk, dried | „ | 1 | |||
Mustard | damp | 5 | |||
Mutton | decomposed | 1 | 23 | ||
Oatmeal | unsound | 1 | 12 | ||
Oats | vermin infested | 1 | — | ||
Pastry mix | unsound | 2 | |||
Pickles | decomposed | 1 | 11 | ||
Poultry | unsound | 4 |