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 Willesden]
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Table 45
Food unfit for human consumption
Meat | Miscellaneous | ||
---|---|---|---|
Bacon | 949¼ lbs. | Apricot pulp | 2 cwt. 29 lbs. |
Cooked | 37 lbs. | Baked beans and pork | 4 tins |
Tinned | 3,256½ lbs. | Biscuits | 583 lbs. |
Raw | 4,604½ lbs. | Calves foot jelly | 10 jars |
Coffee | 2 tins | ||
Tinned | 799 tins | Cream | 13 tins |
Fowl | 4 lbs. | ||
Raw | 400 lbs. | Fruit juice | 149 tins |
Milk coated raisins | 3 lbs. | ||
Tinned | 4,861 tins | Milk coated peanuts | 1 3/4 lbs. |
Raw | 1,932 lbs. | Orange squash | 1 bottle |
Pickles | 2 jars | ||
Ravioli | 2 tins | ||
Tinned | 7,974 tins | Salad cream | 2 jars |
Raw | 73 lbs. | Skinless pork sausages | 334¼ lbs. |
Bread, flour, cereals, etc. | 231 lbs. | Soup | 475 tins |
Preserves | 430 lbs | Spaghetti | 2 tins |
Cheese | 37 lbs. | Sweets | 27 pkts. |
Tinned Milk | 1,551 tins | Tomato pulp | 2 tons, 10 cwt. 107 lbs. |
Table 46 Types of food premises
Baker | 36 |
Bread and confectionery | 38 |
Dairy | 3 |
Butcher | 117 |
Grocer and general store | 312 |
Fishmonger and fish fryer | 60 |
Cafe and restaurant | 157 |
Greengrocer and fruiterer | 120 |
Ie cream and sweet shop | 178 |
Food stall | 16 |
Public house | 43 |
Works canteen | 113 |
Food factory | 13 |
Other food premises | 26 |
Total | 1,232 |
Inspections | 2,174 |
Revisits | 1,268 |
Total | 3,442 |
Table 47
Improvements in food premises
Premises unsatisfactory on 31.12.55 | 38 |
Unsatisfactory during the year | 500 |
Premises made satisfactory during the year | 408 |
Unsatisfactory on 31.12.56 | 130 |