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 Bromley]
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Contraventions.
Carcase and Action
parts of carcase. Disease. Premises. taken.
Carcases of pork Generalised Shop Warning
Tuberculosis
Portion of sheep's
liver Granulomata Ditto Ditto
Pig's liver Cirrhosis Ditto Ditto
Pig's lungs Pleurisy Ditto Ditto
Other Food Condemned.
Complaints made to the Department of food purchased
which was considered by the buyer as unfit to eat.
Type of Food. Condition found. Action taken.
1| lb. Cocoa Maggots — full Owing to a lapse of
in cardboard grown larvae of 6 days from the date
container. the Brown House of purchase and the
Moth. date of complaint
and the absence of
any evidence that
the remaining
packets of same consignment
contained
maggots, no statutory
action was
taken.
6 lb. 3 oz. Decomposed. Owing to a lapse of
boneless 5 days from date of
ham. purchase and the
date of complaint,
no statutory action
was taken. This
ham was sold by a
firm outside the
Borough.
Unsound and Unwholesome Food Surrendered.
Article of Food. Weight.
*Meat 1851 lbs.
Poultry 13 ,,
Fish 224 „