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 Wimbledon]
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The following is a list of the unsound food surrendered during the year:—
Baby Food | 69 tins |
Bacon | 125½ lbs. |
Beans | 9 tins |
Biscuits | 28 lbs. |
Butter | 4 lbs. |
Cake Mixture | 170 pkts. |
Cereal | 49 pkts. |
Cheese | 46 lbs. |
Cheese, Gruyere | 35 cartons |
Cheese, Processed | 3 cartons |
Chicken, Frozen | 2 |
Chicken Paste | 1 jar |
Coffee | 3 bottles |
Confectionery, Sweet | 95½ lbs. |
Custard Powder | 12 pkts. |
Figs, Dried | 34½ lbs. |
Fish. Fresh | 65 stones |
Fish | 80 tins |
Fish Paste | 3 jars |
Fish Roes | 2½ stones |
Flour | 6 pkts. |
Fruit | 841 tins |
Fruit Juice | 6 tins |
Haddock Liver | 63 tins |
Ham | 29½ lbs. |
Ham | 254 tins |
Ham Sandwiches | 54 |
Hors d'oeuvre | 4 tins |
Margarine | 4 lbs. |
Maws | 1 barrel |
Meat | 994½ lbs. |
Meat | 576 tins |
Milk | 469 tins |
Olive Oil | 3 bottles |
Onion, Dehydrated | 14 cartons |
Orange Squash | 2 bottles |
Ox Tongue | 38 lbs. |
Peanut Butter | 2 jars |
Pears in Syrup | 21 jars |
Pears | 14 tins |
Pepper | 3 ozs. |
Pickles | 10 bottles |
Pickles | 32 tins |
Pigs' Feet | 200 lbs. |
Potato Crisps | 300 lbs. |
Prawns | 9 lbs. |
Preserves | 97 jars |
Preserves | 130 tins |
Prunes | 150 lbs. |
Puddings | 25 tins |
Salad Cream | 41 bottles |