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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

Stepney 1908

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Stepney]

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Table: Unsound Food Destroyed during the year.

Unsound Food Destroyed during the year.

Anchovies20 drums
Apples174 tins, 13 boxes, 5 baskets and 1 barrel
Apricots2,318 tins.
Artichokes47 tins
Asparagus465 tins
Bananas3,665 crates
Beans3,016 tins and 6 casks
Beef18,581 tins and 458 lbs.
Bloaters4 boxes
Broth36 tins
Cabbages72 bags and 3 cwts. loose
Carrots220 tins
Carrots and Peas200 tins
Cheeks (Ox)4
Chestnuts71 bags
Cherries188 tins and 3 baskets
Cocoa Beans38 bags
Crayfish2,530 tins
Eggs1,620
Figs20 tins and 78½ lbs.
Fish (fresh)48 boxes 17 barrels and 12 baskets
Flour12 bags
Force Food5 packets
Fruit pulp3,139 tins
Fruits (assorted)29,848 tins
Grapes17 barrels and 13 boxes
Greengages803 tins
Head (bullocks)10 (diseased)
Hominy1 cwt.
Jams20,033 tins
Jellies (Table)737 packets
Kippers49 boxes
Livers (Bullocks)13 (diseased)
Lungs (Bullocks)33 sets (diseased)
Lungs (Sheep)11 sets (diseased)
Macaroni144 boxes
Macedoine6 tins
Maize Meal40 lbs.
Meal (Rye)157 bags
Mesenteries (Bullocks)6 (diseased)
Milk (condensed)9,469 tins