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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
Leyton 1950
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Leyton]
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56
ICE CREAM.
Twenty-seven new applications to retail ice cream have been
granted by the Council.
The standard of quality and purity has been maintained.
Warnings have been given, but it has not been necessary to institute
legal proceedings nor to remove any firm from the register. No
case of illness due to eating ice cream has been reported.
Number of Samples taken during 1950 102
Results of Samples taken—
Grade I. Grade II. Grade III. Grade IV. Unsuitable for
bacterial analysis.
40 34 17 8 3
Manufacturers of Preserved Food, etc.
Premises on Register at 31-12-1950 64
Premises registered during 1950 Nil
Premises removed from Register during 1950 3
Meat and Foods condemned and destroyed.
Bacon 79£ lbs.
Beef 355½ lbs.
Beef, Top-bit 1
Beef, Rump 1
Biscuits 35½lbs.
Biscuits, Chocolate 32 pkts.
Butter 1½ lbs.
Cereals 151 pkts.
Cheese 68 lbs.
Cheese 25 pkts.
Chickens 54
Chocolate 4 bars.
Chocolate 13 boxes.
Chocolate Marzipan 44 lbs.
Chocolate Cup 112 pkts.
Chocolate Cigars 9
Condensed Milk 224 tins.
Corned Beef 85 tins.