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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
Bromley 1932
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bromley]
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Other Food Condemned.
Type of Food. Premises. Action taken.
10 lbs. pears ... Market stall Seized as unsound
and unfit for food.
Warning sent.
7 1bs. strawberry
jam, 1-311) tin
apricot jam, and
1-½lb. tin gooseberries
in syrup Baker's shop Ditto.
Unsound Food Surrendered.
Article of Food. Quantity. Weight.
Pears 1 box 40 lbs.
Pears 1 box 60 lbs.
Prawns 5 boxes 70 lbs.
Herrings 2 boxes 200 lbs.
Bananas 1 crate
Potatoes 1 sack 224 lbs.
Bacon 4 pieces 12¼ lbs.
Smoked Codling 5 boxes 70 lbs.
Wet fillet of fish 4 boxes 56 lbs.
Vegetables 251 tins
Fruit 754 tins
Fish 132 tins
Milk 467 tins
Miscellaneous tinned
or bottled foods 100
Food and
The following tabulation gives particulars of the work of the Food and Drugs Inspector in Bromley during
1932: —
| New Milks | 51 | Oatmeal | 1 |
| Condensed Milk | 1 | Flour | 2 |
| Margarine | 4 | Dried Fruit | 1 |
| Coffee | 4 | Olive Oil | 2 |
| Ground Rice | 1 | Fruit Salad | 1 |
| Cornflour | 2 | Brawn | 1 |
| Butter | 3 | Gregory Powder | 1 |
| Ground Cinnamon | 2 | Zinc Ointment | 1 |
| Cocoa | 4 | Boracic A. Ointment | 1 |