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

Stepney 1950

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Stepney]

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Table: Table 10.Summary of Inspections, Visits and Action Taken by the specialist inspectors engaged in the supervision andinspection of food.

Table 10.

Summary of Inspections, Visits and Action Taken by the specialist inspectors engaged in the supervision and

inspection of food.

Bakehouses227
Butcher and Bacon shops and stalls254
Butter and Margarine premises54
Complaints
Fish shops and stalls605
Grocery and Provision shops306
Greengrocers and Fruiterers shops and stalls773
Ice Cream premises372
London Fruit Exchange222
Markets (Daily)930
Markets (Week-end)11
Milkshops356
Poultry shops and stalls1616
Prepared Food premises312
Public Houses140
Railway Depots+ 308
Restaurants, Caf4s , Canteens, etc924
Spitalfields Market133
Wharves946
Wholesale Grocers358
Miscellaneous visits501
Samples:Food and Drugs1126
Other292
Revisits1018
No. of summonses taken out77

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+ Includes 290 special night or early morning
inspections at Bishopsgate Goods Station.
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