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 Orpington]
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23
Unsound Food.
During 1948 332 condemnation certificates were issued,
affecting in quantity 2 tons 5 cwts. of varied articles of food. No
prosecutions were necessary, and the condemned food was
utilised either for animal food or, where this was impracticable,
destroyed. The co-operation of the traders was in all cases
complete.
339 tins meat
300 ,, vegetables.
155 ,, preserves
268 ,, fish.
279 ,, fruit.
265 ,, milk.
2 ,, coffee.
2 „ cocoa.
2 „ sponge pudding.
12 „ tomato sauce.
59 jars pickles.
24 jars plums.
7 bottles orange juice.
3 bottles sauce.
1 carton dried egg.
28 boxes cheese.
1 lb. semolina.
2 Irish chickens.
2 Irish turkeys.
1 cwt. sausage rusk.
3 lb. plain flour.
27 ¾lb. butchers' meat.
18 cwt. fish.
11¼ lb. cheese.
3 cwt. 2½ lb. dried skimmed milk.
30 lb. sausages.
100 lb. herrings.
38 lb. dates.
150 lb. rabbit carcases.
37½ lb. bacon.
1 carcase pork.