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 Friern Barnet]
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Beef 354 lbs.
Lamb 190 lbs.
Liver 13 lbs.
Bacon 6 lbs.
Sausages 2 lbs.
Fish 7 lbs.
Pies 2
Tinned Meat 16 tins
Tinned Vegetables 77 tins
Tinned Soup 1 tin
Tinned Fish 8 tins
Tinned Fruit 184 tins
This unsound food was disposed of by
incineration or by burial at the Sewage Works.
Ice cream.
There are seventy premises registered to sell
ice cream. This number includes seven premises
approved for the purpose for the first time during
the year.
At none of these premises is ice cream manufactured.
In most instances it is obtained from the larger producers
and is sold in the wrapped condition as supplied. In
these circumstances handling, and therefore the risk
of contamination, is at a minimum.
Forty-five samples of the different kinds of ice
cream were examined. Three of these, from one
manufacturer, were not satisfactory. The matter was
taken up with the manufacturer and production of the
ice cream was stopped until the source of the trouble,
a fault in the plant, was found and remedied.
Milk.
The milk supplied in Friern Barnet is either
pasteurised, sterilised, or tuberculin tested, the
district being in a 'specified area' within which all
milk sold must be of one or other of these grades,
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