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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
Penge 1944
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Penge]
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| Houses with scullery paving repaired | 2 |
| Houses with air bricks renewed | 6 |
| Houses with stairs repaired | 3 |
| Houses with fireplace jambs and mantels repaired | 6 |
| Kitchen stoves repaired or renewed | 5 |
| Scullery coppers repaired or renewed | 1 |
| Other stoves repaired or renewed | 9 |
| Doors repaired or renewed | 3 |
| Ventilation and lighting of rooms improved | 2 |
| Chimney stacks repaired | 6 |
| New dustbins provided | 24 |
| Premises with miscellaneous defects repaired, etc. | 12 |
| Overcrowding abated | 2 |
| Animals removed | 5 |
| Wasps nests destroyed | 4 |
| Accumulations removed | 16 |
INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OF FOOD.
The analysis of 8 informal samples of milk obtained during
the year, all of which were genuine, show the following satisfactory
average:-
Fat 3.99%
Solids, not fat 3.86%
The following licences were issued under the Milk (Special
Designations) Orders:-
Dealers' Licences:-
Tuberculin tested milk 1
Pasteurised milk 4
Supplementary Licences:-
Tuberculin tested milk 5
Pasteurised milk 5
The amount of food surrendered and condemned as unfit for
human food, after examination by your Inspectors, was 36tons.17cwts.
3qtrs.271bs, the greater proportion being on account of enemy action.
The principal items condemned were as follows:-
| Bacon | 20,417 lbs. | Meat & fish paste | 49 jars. |
| Beef. | 3,873 lbs. | Meat extract | 120 jars |
| Black puddings | 510 lbs. | Onions | 224 lbs. |
| Brawn | 1,014 lbs. | Oatmeal, etc. | 319 lbs. |
| Butter | 180 lbs. | Pork | 16,951 lbs. |
| Bread | 88 lbs. | Pickles. | 91 bots. |
| Biscuits | 144 lbs. | Potatoes | 2,719 lbs. |
| Barley | 283 lbs. | Pepper | 174 lbs. |
| Cheese | 182 lbs. | Rabbits. | 2,110 lbs. |
| Cake. | 573 lbs. | Rice | 193 lbs. |
| Cake mixture | 99 lbs. | Sausages | 891 lbs. |
| Curry Powder | 784 lbs. | Sugar | 628 lbs. |
| Coriander | 112 lbs. | Soups & gravy | 1,080 pkts. |
| Cereals | 1,766 lbs. | Sauces | 242 bots. |
| Dried Eggs. | 153 pkts. | Salt | 6,810 lbs. |
| Dried vegetables. | 419 lbs. | Semolina | 1,047 lbs. |
| Dried fruit | 36 5 lbs. | Sugar confectionery. | 1,347 lbs. |
| Eggs. | 1,879 | Saltpetre | 224 lbs. |
| Flour | 4,059 lbs. | Tinned meat | 59 tins. |
| Fruit | 41 lbs. | Tinned Meat & vegetables | 779 tins. |
| Fish. | 479 lbs. | Tinned milk | 220 tins. |
| Jam | 792 lbs. | Tinned vegetables | 77 tins. |
| Lard & cooking fat | 247 lbs. | Tinned soups | 49 tins . |
| Mutton | 6,352 lbs. | Tinned fish | 141 tins. |
| Margarine | 381 lbs. | Tea | 167 lbs. |
| Macaroni | 86 lbs. | Veal | 1,849 lbs. |