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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Result.
6. Meat 47%
7. Deficient 12% minimum
amount of meat
(k) Meat 146%
(I) 1. Deficient 7.7% minimum
amount of meat
2. Deficient 4.6% minimum
amount of meat
3. Deficient 7.7% minimum
amount of meat
4. Deficient 7.7% minimum
amount of meat
5. Deficient 7.7% minimum
amount of meat
6. Deficient 4.6% minimum
' amount of mea
7. Deficient 4.6% minimum
amount of meat
8. One rodent hair found
9. Deficient 40% minimum
amount of meat
10. Meat 58%
11. Sulphite 1,400 parts per million
12. Sulphite 100 parts per million
(not declared)
13. Meat 62%
14. Deficient 32% minimum
amount of meat
15. Deficient 15% minimum
amount of meat
(m) Unfit for use in making pudding
(n) Contained partly carbonised
insect fragments
(o) Contained 0.23% common salt
(p) Presence of added salt (0.98%)
should be declared
Action Taken.
Seller warned. Further sample
satisfactory.
Seller warned. Further sample
satisfactory.
Seller warned. Further sample
satisfactory.
Warning given. Further sample
satisfactory.
Warning given. Further sample
satisfactory.
Warning given. Further sample
satisfactory.
Warning given. Further sample
satisfactory.
Warning given. Further sample
satisfactory.
Warning given. Further sample
satisfactory.
Warning given. Further sample
satisfactory.
Warning given.
Seller prosecuted, fined £3 and £2
costs.
Seller warned. Further sample
satisfactory.
Manufacturers warned. Further
sample satisfactory.
Seller warned. Further sample
satisfactory.
Seller warned. Further sample
satisfactory.
Seller prosecuted, fined £5 and
£2 2s. costs.
Manufacturers prosecuted, fined
£20 and £10 10s. costs.
Consignment withdrawn from sale.
Manufacturers informed.
Complainant informed.
No action.
Food Preparing Places.
Three hundred and seventy-one visits were made to cafes,
restaurants and canteens in the district, and 1,703 to other food
preparing premises. There are approximately 168 premises in
the area issued with a catering licence by the Ministry of Food,
and these include 74 restaurants, cafes, public houses, fish friers,
etc., 1 hotel, 28 staff canteens, 16 clubs, 27 day schools and
nurseries, and 22 institutions (including hostels, residential
schools and colleges, hospitals, nursing homes, orphanages, etc.).