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Walthamstow 1961

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Walthamstow]

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Bacteriological Examination of Ice Cream
Seventy-nine samples were submitted for examination and for
grading in accordance with the provisional test of the Ministry of
Health, with the following results:
Grade I- 53
Grade II - 19
Grade III - 2
Grade IV - 5
Lollies (Various)
Eleven samples were examined for bacterial purity, one being
unsatisfactory.
Meat and other Foods
There are no slaughterhouses in the Borough.
The following is a summary of food surrendered and condemned as
being unfit for human consumption. Where possible, the food was
salvaged.
317 tins Evaporated Milk
81 tins Full Cream Milk
1 tin Skimmed Milk
11 tins Cream
5 tins Drinking Chocolate
3 tins Coffee
872 tins Soup
116 tins Baby Foods
12 tins Junior Foods
107 tins Creamed Rice
1 tin Macaroni
1 tin Custard Powder
90 tins Treacle Pudding
3 tins Fruit Pudding
68 tins Date Pudding
79 tins Christmas Pudding
96 tins Mincemeat
3 tins Curried Beans
685 tins baked Beans
32 tins Butter Beans
30 tins Beans & Pork
11 tins Spinach
10 tins Pease Pudding
39 tins Macedoine of Vegs
1405 tins Peas
125 tins Spaghetti
6 tins Vegetable Salad
24 tins Cut Potatoes
39 tins Carrots
106 tins Salmon
1 tin Sardines
56 tins Pilchards
1 tin Crab
68 tins Fish Cakes
48 tins Lemon Curd
26 tins Marmalade
23 tins Gherkins
64 jars Jam
2 jars Salmon Spread
23 jars Pickles
136 botts Sauce
16½ lb. Sausages
1½ lb. Liver Sausage
2% lb. Breakfast Sausage
8½ lb. Plucks
30 lb. Ox Tongues
81 lb. Ox Liver
50 lb. Ox Cheeks
5½ lb. Lambs Tongues
17½ lb. Minced Pork
230 lb. Steak
676 lb. Corned Beef
72 lb. Corned Mutton
438 lb. Luncheon Meat
282 lb. Chopped Pork
19 lb. Cooked Bacon
13 lb. Ham
362½ lb. Ham (tinned)