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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

Hornchurch 1954

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hornchurch]

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41
Complaint.
Opened bottle of lemonade containing
foreign matter.
Sponge cakes tasting of disinfectant.
Tin of dried milk powder containing
brown particles.
Part of loaf containing black mass.
Oatmeal containing small particles
of foreign matter.
Tinned cream.
Cough Medicine linctus containing
flies.
Action.
Submitted to Analysts (sample
No. Inf.645). Result noted
above.
Submitted to Analysts.
Submitted to Analysts.
Submitted to Analysts (sample
No. Inf.776).
Submitted to Analysts (sample
No. Inf.747). Result noted
above.
2 tins submitted to Pathologist
for examination. No organisms
of the Salmonella or Shigella
groups isolated.
As was stated in my last Annual
Report this matter was referred
to the Essex Executive Committee.
I have since been informed
that the Committee
considered the case fully and
the chemist was warned to ensure
that in future more care is
to be taken in dispensing in
conformity with the National
Health Service.

Table: Unsound Food.During the year the following foods were voluntarily surrendered to the Sanitary Inspectors as being unfit for human consumption :

Unsound Food.

During the year the following foods were voluntarily surrendered to the Sanitary Inspectors as being unfit for human consumption :

TonsCwts.Lbs.Ozs.No.
Chocolate Tea Cakes————60
Fish—321——
Meat—122114—
Miscellaneous Groceries—18910—
Buns————43
Sausages—162——
Offal (imported)——8——
Tinned Skimmed Milk Powder—135——
Tinned Food—124511—
Tinned Ham——-7115—
Tinned Meat—4689—
Tinned Milk—1106——
Rabbits——60——
" Iced Bars "——9——
2—3811103

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This food, if suitable, is used for animal feeding purposes and the
remainder buried on the Council's refuse tips.