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 Ruislip]
This page requires JavaScript
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.
ARTICLE | TOTAL SAMPLES PROCURED | UNSATISFACTORY |
---|---|---|
Milk (various) | 87 | - |
Butter and Marg rine | 16 | - |
Cheese | 14 | 1 |
Cream | 19 | - |
Drugs | 16 | - |
Fish and Fish Products | 15 | - |
Fruit (Dried) | 5 | - |
Ice-Cream and Lollies | 33 | - |
Meat Meat Products and Liver | 49 | - |
Soft Drinks | 3 | - |
Spirits | 5 | - |
Vinegar | 12 | " |
Miscellaneous | 14 | |
TOTALS | 28 | 1 |