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 Kingston-upon-Thames]
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Amount of meat passing through the depots
in the course of a year- approximately 18,352 tons.
Amount of meat condemned as a percentage of the whole- 0.016%.
Foodstuffs Condemned as unfit.
The following unfit foodstuffs were voluntarily surrendered and destroyed:-
Canned Goods. | lbs. |
---|---|
Cream | 9 |
Fish | 105 |
Fruit and fruit juice | 1,858 |
Jam | 87 |
Meat and meat production | 930 |
Milk | 26 |
Milk production | 31 |
Poultry | 51 |
Soup | 69 |
Vegetable | 326 |
Other | 30 |
Fish | 68 |
Flour | 22 |
Frozen | 637 |
Fruit (fresh) | 2,456 |
" (dried) | 685 |
Meat | 7,328 |
Potatoes | 224 |
Poultry | 419 |
Rabbits | 112 |
Salt | 5 |
Sugar | 6 |
Other | 50 |
Prosecution.
The Council instituted legal proceedings against a supermarket
for exposing for sale roast beef which was unfit for human consumption
and had been seized and taken before a Justice of the Peace. A
fine of £25 was imposed and 10 guineas costs awarded.