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Ruislip-Northwood 1960

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Ruislip]

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MEAT AND OTHER FOODS
There are no slaughterhouses or wholesale meat depots
In this District.
The following items of foodstuffs, amounting to 5 tons
15 cwts 3 qrs 22¼ lbs., were examined in retail shops
as a result of complaints from the shopkeepers or the
public, and were condemned:-
523¾ lbs Meat
1,626¾ lbs- Tinned Meat
¾ lb Offal
25 lbs Poultry
¼ lb. Sausages (Tinned)
3)4 lbs Tinned Chicken
665½ lbs. Bacon
4,598 lbs Tinned fruit
207 lbs. Tinned Fruit Juice
6½ lbs Dried Fruit
2, 120¼lbs Tinned Soup
101¾ lbs. Tinned Vegetable Juice
1,854 lbs. Tinned Vegetables
4¼ lbs Tinned cream
41 lbs Tinned Vegetable Salads
244¼ lbs Tinned Fish
14 lbs Fresh Fish
217½ lbs Tinned Milk
44¼ lbs. Cheese
119¼ lbs Jam and Marmalade
16½ lbs. Tinned Meat Pudding
46¾ lbs. Tinned Milk Pudding
33¼ lbs Tinned Pease Pudding
394½ lbs. Miscellaneous frozen foods
12¾ lbs. Tinned Baby Foods
62 lbs. Cheese Spread
3 lbs. Steak and Kidney Pie
FOOD AND DRUGS ACT, 1955

The following details of samples taken by the County Sampling Officers under the above Act within the Ruislip-Northwood Urban District during the period 1.4.59 to 31.3.60 have been kindly furnished by Mr John A. 0' Keefe, Chief Officer Public Control Department, Middlesex County Council.

ARTICLETOTAL SAMPLES PROCUREDUNSATISFACTORY
Milk (various)87-
Butter and Marg rine16-
Cheese141
Cream19-
Drugs16-
Fish and Fish Products15-
Fruit (Dried)5-
Ice-Cream and Lollies33-
Meat Meat Products and Liver49-
Soft Drinks3-
Spirits5-
Vinegar12"
Miscellaneous14
TOTALS281