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Penge 1948
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Penge]
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INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OF FOOD.
Periodical visits were made to premises and stalls where foods are prepared,
stored or exposed for sale. Defects found at 15 food premises were remedied.
Legal proceedings were taken under the Food and Drugs Act, 1938,
Section 13, against one cafe proprietor, and fines of £5 0s. Od. and £1 0s. 0d.
were imposed.
The amount of food surrendered and condemned as unfit for human food
after examination by your Inspectors, was 11 tons, 10 cwts., 2 qrs., 15 lbs., a
large proportion of which was at a Food Manufacturing Factory.
The items condemned were as follows :-
| Bacon | 9,841 lbs. | Offal | 60 lbs. |
| Beef | 1,290¾ lbs. | Pickles | 21 bots. |
| Biscuits | 2 lbs. | Pork | 125 lbs. |
| Barley | 56 lbs. | Potatoes | 25 cwts. |
| Butter | l¼ lb. | Prunes | 15½ lbs. |
| Butter beans | 28 lbs. | Rabbits | 409 lbs. |
| Black pudding | 548 lbs. | Poultry | 455 lbs. |
| Cheese | 21¾ lbs. | Pudding Mixture | 15 pkts. |
| Coffee essence | 2 bots. | Rusks | 1½ lbs. |
| Coffee | ½ lb. | Sauces and Vinegar .. | 8 bots. |
| Calves heads | 1,095 lbs. | Sausages | 20 lbs. |
| Calves feet | 500 lbs. | Sugar | 34 lbs. |
| Cake | 1½ lb. | Sugar confectionery .. | 3 lbs. |
| Corned mutton | 282 lbs. | Semolina | 224 lbs. |
| Dates | 10½ lbs. | Syrup | 2 lbs. |
| Dried eggs | 2 pkts. | Tinned Bacon .. | 1 tin |
| Dried milk | . 4,415 lbs. | » Cheese.. | 3 tins |
| Fish | . 1,215 lbs. | " Fish | 92 „ |
| Flour | 175 lbs. | » Marmalade .. | 2 „ |
| Gelantine | 1 lb. | 99 Meat | 221 „ |
| Fish Cakes | 13 lbs. | 99 Fruit .. | 52 „ |
| Jam and marmalade | 120 lbs. | » Fruit juices | 8 „ |
| Liquid egg | 2 | » Meat and veg. | 6 „ |
| Meat and fish pastes | 17 jars | » Milk .. | 306 „ |
| Meat pies | 8 | » Soup .. | 30 „ |
| Macaroni | 1 lb. | » Vegetables | 122 „ |
| Onions | 1 jar | » Sausages | 1 tin |
| Oatmeal | 33 lb. |
Condemnation certificates totalled 419 compared with 381 in 1947.
The following Licences were issued under the Milk (Special Designations) Orders :-
| Dealers' Licences : | |
| Tuberculin tested milk | 3 |
| Pasteurised milk | 4 |
| Supplementary Licences : | |
| Tuberculin tested milk | 4 |
| Pasteurised milk | 6 |