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 East Ham]
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C. Ice Cream | 1960 | 1961 |
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Number of premises registered for sale of ice cream | 311 | 311 |
Number of new registrations included in above figure | 18 | 7 |
Number of premises registered for manufacture of ice cream | 20 | 20 |
Number of samples of ice cream submitted for bacteriological examination | 38 | 37 |
Number of above samples found unsatisfactory or of a low standard of purity | 21 | 18 |
Grading of samples on examination- | ||
Grade I | 22 | 23 |
Grade II | 10 | 7 |
Grade III | 4 | 4 |
Grade IV | 2 | 3 |
D. Other Foods | 1960 | 1961 |
Number of premises registered at end of year for the preparation or manufacture of prescribed foods | 109 | 107 |
Number of new registrations included in above figures | - | 1 |
The following amounts of foodstuffs were certified as unfit for human consumption | ||
Meat (tins) | 144 | 277 |
Fruit (tins) | 309 | 202 |
Milk (tins) | 35 | 60 |
Fish (tins) | 37 | 40 |
Other foods (fins or packets) | 233 | 897 |
Totals | 772 | 1,476 |
Food other than tinned or packeted:-
Meat | 352 lbs. | 539 lbs. 3ozs. |
Fish | 42 lbs. | 60 lbs. |
Chickens | 58 lbs. 11 ozs. | - |
Cream | 5 ozs. | 6 ozs. |
Currants | 50 lbs. | - |
Jam | 5 lbs. | 119 lbs. 4 ozs. |
Marmalade | 1 lb. | - |
Prunes | 60 lbs. | - |
Piccallilli | 3 lbs. 11 ozs. | - |
Potatoes | 252 lbs. | - |
Meat Paste | - | 1½ ozs. |
Totals | 824 lbs. 11 ozs. | 718 lbs. 14½ ozs |