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Barnet 1953

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barnet Urban District Council]

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MEAT AMD FOOD CONDEMNED.
The following is a list of the articles of food condemned as unfit for human
consumption during the year.
Meat.
Fresh Meat.
Beef (English and Scotch)lbs. 333
" (Imported) lbs. 135
Pork (Cooked) lbs. 35½
Lamb and Mutton (Irish) lbs. l8½
Sausages (Beef) lbs. 46
" (Pork) lbs. 93
Canned Meat.
Veal lbs. 48
Stewed Steak lbs. 66½
Stewed Mutton lbs. 7
Chicken and Rabbit lbs. 4¾
Tongue lbs. 3
Ham (Imported) lbs. 31
Luncheon Meat lbs. 30
Corned Beef lbs. 42½
Pork Sausages lbs. 25
Fish.
Prawns lbs. 8
Salmon tins 1
Dressed Crab tins 3
Brisling tins 4
Pilchards, Sardines
and Silds tins 8
Fruit.
Grapes lbs. 22
Apples tins 101
Damsons tins 40
Oranges tins 22
Plums tins & bottles 193
Cherries tins & bottles 38
Greengages tins & bottles 31
Miscellaneous tins & jars 138
Fruit Juices tins 5
Vegetables and Cereals.
Beans tins 31
Peas tins 98
Tomatoes tins 58
Vegetables
(Miscellaneous) tins 11
Flour cwt. 1
Rice, Tapioca, Oats
& Barley lbs. 20
Breakfast Cereals pkts. 4
Groceries.
Cheese (Processed) lbs. 125
Cake Mixture? lbs. 3¼
Milk tins 55
Soup tins 12
Puddings tins 4
Mincemeat tins 3
Paste and Spreads jars 3
Jam, Marmalade & Honey
jars & tins 66
Pickles & Sauces
bottles & jars 7
Blancmange Powder
pkts & tins 67
Flavouring bottles 5
Dessicated Coconut pkts 24
Cut Peel cartons 5
Forty-two pigs have been inspected on a farm after slaughter. The pigs were
swine fiver contacts and one entire carcase was condemned and destroyed because of
evidence of swine fever infection. Three pigs heads were also condemned because
of infection by tuberculosis.