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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
Wimbledon 1951
[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 |