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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
Harrow 1970
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Harrow]
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TESTED BY PUBLIC ANALYST:
(F) FOOD AND DRUGS ACT, 1955
Taken
Satisfactory
Unsatisfactory
338
320
18
(G) FERTILISERS AND FEEDINGSTUFFS ACT, 1926
Taken
Satisfactory
Unsatisfactory
43
43
-
(H) PHARMACY AND POISONS ACT, 1933
Taken
Satisfactory
Unsatisfactory
21
21
-
Complaints
The Department received 145 complaints in respect of food, an
increase of forty-eight from 1969 (97):-
Foods
Bread
25
Frozen Foods
4
Butter
2
Jam/Marmalade
6
Cake
5
Meat
25
Cheese
4
Nuts
2
Chocolate
3
Sausages
3
Cream
3
Tinned Food
11
Fish
4
Yoghurt
5
Flour
2
Miscellaneous
10
Milk Foreign matter 13
Dirty bottles 6
Quality 3
Other Beverages Foreign Matter 9