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 Wembley]
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Dried eggs 14 packets.
Jams 403 tins.
Marmalade 141 tins.
Apple jelly 1 jar.
Pastes 7 jars.
Potted meat 107 jars.
Marmite 3 jars.
Herring spread 104 tins.
Cods liver and roe paste 55 tins.
Meat extract 1 jar.
Pilchoric 1 tin.
Horseradish cream 2 jars.
Pickles 84 bottles.
Chutney 30 bottles.
Pickled cucumbers 13 jars.
Sauce 15 bottles.
Piccalilli 358 jars.
Pickled onions 104 jars.
Pickled cabbage 1 jar.
Olives 1 jar.
Pate fois gras 3 tins.
Sandwich spread 1 jar.
Tea 26 lbs.
Butter 20 lbs.
Flour 765 lbs.
Sugar—loaf 14 lbs.
Sugar—granulated 1,247½ lbs.
Sugar—demerara 7 lbs.
Coffee with chicory 34 bottles.
Inspection of dwelling-houses during the year:—
(a) (i) Total number of dwelling-houses
spected for housing defects (under Public
Health or Housing Acts) 4,524
(ii) Number of inspections made for the
purpose 10,051
(b) (i) Number of dwelling-houses (included
under sub-head (1) above) which were
inspected and recorded under the Housing
Consolidated Regulations, 1925/1932 11
(ii) Number of inspections made for the
purpose 35
(c) Number of dwelling-houses found not to be
in all respects reasonably fit for human
habitation 1,832
76