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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 1968

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bromley]

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Nature of Unsatisfactory SampleRemarks
(o)Serial No. 2453. Skinless Sausages. Composition : There were mould growths on the surface of the sausages.Complaint investigated. Warning letter to Manufacturer.
(o)Serial No. 2387. Pork Sausages. Composition: Meat content 64 per cent including 29 per cent fat. A slight increase in fat would bring the whole meat content to the required standard of 65 per cent.Repeat sample — satisfactory.
(o)Serial No. 2449. Beef Sausages. Composition: Contained sulphite 120 p.p.m., which should have been declared.Warning to Vendor. Statutory notice now exhibited—satisfactory.
(w)Serial No. 2499. Chicken Croquettes. Composition: Embedded in the surface of the croquette was the filter tip of a smoked cigarette but it was not possible to say when the object had gained access.Source of cigarette end not ascertained. Matter drawn to attention of Manufacturer and Vendor.
(p)Serial No. 2435. Fried Cod. Composition: Embedded in the fried cod was a house fly which had undergone heating.Insect probably incorporated during preprocessing in Newfouud-iand. Warning letter to Manufacturer.
(a)Serial No. 2551. Milk Bottle. Composition: Firmly attached to the inner surface of the bottle was a number of pupae of the phorid fly—Paraspini-phora bergenstammi. This fly is known to breed in milk residues in discarded milk bottles.Legal proceedings. Fined £30 with £12 lis. 6d. costs.
(a)Serial No. 2550. Milk Bottle. Composition: The deposit on the inner surface of the bottle, more particularly the base, consisted of firmly adherent colour residues, probably the result of using the bottle as a water container in water colour painting.Unable to identify precisely which bottling plant involved. Warning letter to Dairy Company.
(a)Serial No. 2452. Milk Bottle. Composition: The foreign body on the inner surface of the bottle consisted of a fragment of a tea leaf.Warning letter to Dairy Company.