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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Finchley 1958
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Finchley]
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UNSOUND FOOD CONDEMNED, 1958
(1) In Slaughterhouses
TUBERCULOSIS
Pigs
Heads 5
Mesenteries 1
CYSTICERCOSIS
Cattle
Heads 1
OTHER DISEASES
Cattle
Lungs 1 set (Pneumonia)
Hearts 1 (Pericarditis)
Sheep and Lambs
Livers 3 (Flukes)
Pigs
Plucks 1 (Pericarditis & Cirrhosis)
Legs 2 (Injury)
Hocks 2 (Bruising)
(2) In Shops
Cattle
Beef 185 lbs.
Bovine Head 1
Calf (1) 52 lbs.
Ox Sweetbreads 50 lbs.
Ox Sweetbreads 42
Ox Tails (25) 53 lbs.
Sheep and Lambs
Leg of Lamb 6½ lbs.
Lambs' livers 4
Lambs' plucks (27) 90 lbs.
Pigs
Livers (4) 13 lbs.
Plucks 38 lbs.
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