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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Unsound Food.
The following is a list of the unsound food surrendered during
the year:—
Bacon 55 lbs.
Beverages 5 jars
Biscuits 79 lbs. & 1 pkt.
Cakes 258
Cereals 4 packets
Cheese 211 lbs. & 10 tins
Coffee 1 bottle
Confectionery 6 lbs. & 4 pkts.
Cordials 13 bottles
Cream 1 tin
Crumpets 1 packet
Custard 2 tins
Eggs 4
Fish (fresh) 137½ lbs.
Fish (preserved) 81 tins & jars
Flavouring 2 bottles
Fruit (fresh) 20¼ lbs.
Fruit (preserved) 428 tins
Fruit salad 1 jar
Gherkins 1 jar
Ham 9¾ lbs. & 5 tins
Ice-cream 83 lbs.
Jams 71 jars & 26 tins
Liver (ox) 31½ lbs.
Liver (sheep) 42 lbs.
Macaroni 4 packets
Margarine 24 lbs.
Meat (fresh) 3,016½ lbs.
Meat (preserved) 165 tins
Meat Paste 3 jars
Milk (Evaporated) 331 tins
Nuts 177 tins
Olive Oil 1 bottle
Peanut butter 2 jars
Pickle 2 jars
Puddings (Christmas) 20 lbs.
Puddings 4 tins
Rice 6 packets
Salad cream 3 jars
Salt 4 tins
Sandwich spread 2 tins
Sausages 30 lbs. & 10 tins
Sausages and beans 2 tins
Soups and stews 48 tins
Spaghetti 3 tins
Steak and onions 5 tins
Suet 3 lbs.
Syrup 2 tins
Tomato 3 tins
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