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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
Havering 1967
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Havering]
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UNSOUND FOOD
Duringthe year the following foods were voluntarily surrendered
to the Public Health Inspectors as being unfit for human consumption.
TABLE 47
Unsound Food Surrendered
| TONS. | CWTS. | LBS. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fish | 2 | 16 | 14 |
| Frozen Food | — | 3 | 47 |
| Meat (Retail Shops) | 1 | 12 | 43 |
| Meat (Wholesale Depots) | 1 | 4 | 43 |
| Offal | — | 5 | 56 |
| Poultry | — | — | 87 |
| Sausages | — | — | 44 |
| T inned Fish | — | 3 | — |
| Tinned Food | 1 | 2 | 12 |
| Tinned Fruit | 1 | 9 | 16 |
| Tinned Meat | — | 13 | 21 |
| Tinned Milk | — | 1 | 43 |
| TOTAL | 9 | 11 | 90 |
The breakdown of electricity supply to shop premises creates
problems for the shopkeeper with frozen food cabinets although
it now seems to be recognised that in the event of a power-cut
frozen food stored in a correctly packed cabinet should, with the
possible exception of the top layer, keep satisfactorily for up
to five hours. The actual time, however, would depend on a
number of factors, including the ambient temperature, the efficiency
of the cabinet before the breakdown and whether the retailer
himself had taken any precautionary measures such as insultating
the top of the cabinet.
PHARMACY AND POISONS ACT, 1933
The sale of certain poisons — generally those used for
sanitary, domestic and horticultural purposes — by persons
other than pharmacists is subject to the provisions of this Act
and the rules made thereunder.
Persons selling such poisons must have their name entered
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