London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Willesden 1961
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Willesden]
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Table 38
Food unfit for human consumption
| Meat | Bread, flour, cereals, etc. | 4 lbs. | |
| Bacon | 39 lbs. | Preserves | 81 lbs. |
| Cooked | 74 lbs. | Tinned milk | 73 tins |
| Tinned | 1,804 lbs. | Butter and fats | 2 lbs. |
| Raw | 627 lbs. | Soups | 36 tins |
| Fish | Miscellaneous | ||
| Tinned | 229 tins | Biscuits | 28 lbs. |
| Coconut | 48 lbs. | ||
| Poultry | Frozen food (miscellaneous) | 1,335 packets | |
| Raw | 1,014 lbs. | Fruit juice | 95 tins |
| Vegetables | Horseradish relish | 5 jars | |
| Mustard | 20 tins | ||
| Tinned | 633 tins | Rice, creamed | 3 tins |
| Fruit | Sugar | 36 lbs. | |
| Tomato juice | 10 tins | ||
| Tinned | 1,255 tins | Shelled nuts | 55 lbs. |
Table 39
Food: Samples taken
| Article | No. of samples | Unsatisfactory |
|---|---|---|
| Milk (various) | 126 | 3 |
| Butter | 36 | - |
| Cakes and biscuits | 6 | - |
| Cream | 19 | - |
| Drugs | 42 | - |
| Fish and fish products | 9 | - |
| Fruit (fresh, canned and dried) | 16 | - |
| Herbs | 6 | - |
| Ice cream | 32 | - |
| Liver | 4 | - |
| Margarine | 24 | - |
| Meat and meat products | 95 | 3 |
| Preserves | 5 | - |
| Sausages | 7 | 2 |
| Soft drinks and fruit juices | 4 | — |
| Sweets | 7 | — |
| Vinegar and non-brewed condimt | jnts 27 | — |
| Miscellaneous | 17 | 1 (bread) |
| Total | 482 | 9 |
FACTORIES
Table 40 On register and inspections
| No. on register | Inspections | Written notices | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Factories in which sections 1, 2, 3, 4, and 6 are to be enforced by local authority | 62 | 94 | 3 |
| Factories not included above in which section 7 is enforced by the local authority | 748 | 821 | 41 |
| Other premises in which section 7 is enforced by the local authority (excluding outworkers premises) | 10 | 15 | — |
| Total | 820 | 930 | 44 |
No occupiers were prosecuted during the year.