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 Wanstead and Woodford]
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The following is a list of food surrendered during the year because of
unsound conditions:
Fish, Fresh 42 lbs.
Meat, Fresh
Beef 1,964 lbs.
Lamb 1,251 lbs.
Lambs Livers 30 lbs.
Lambs Hearts 75 lbs.
Ox Livers 78 lbs.
Ox Kidneys 9 lbs.
Pigs Melts 85 lbs.
Pigs Kidneys 64 lbs.
Chickens 448 lbs.
Turkeys 23 lbs.
Meat, Tinned
Chicken 12 lbs.
Pork Luncheon Meat 140 lbs.
Corned Beef 106 lbs.
Ham 149 lbs.
Steak 1 lb
Ox Tongues 18 lbs.
Jellied Veal 6 lbs.
Miscellaneous Tinned Foods
687 tins
Other Foods
Sweet confectionery 24 cartons
3 cases
A list of food sampled is given below:
Almond Marzipan 1
Aspirin 1
Bacon 2
Banana Flavour 1
Batter pancake flour 1
Beef curry with rice 1
Beef suet 1
Black pudding 1
Bloater paste 1
Brandy 1
Brewer's yeast 1
Butter 7
Cheese 2
Cheese spread with mushroom 1
Chicken and ham paste 1
Chocolate honeycomb 1
Cinnamon 1
Cocktail cherries 1
Coffee and chicory essence 1
Corned beef 1
Currants 1
Curry powder 1
Danish blue cheese 1
Danish Salami 1
Dates stoned 1
Demerara sugar 1
Double cream 2
Dressed Crab 1
Ground rice 1
Hamburger steak dinner 1
Honey l
Instant Coffee 1
Jellied Veal 1
Jelly 2
Lard 3
Lemon curd 1
Liver sausage 2
Margarine 3
Marzipan 1
Mincemeat 1
Mint sauce 2
Minute steakettes 1
Mixed Spice 1
Nestea instant tea 1
Nutmeg 1
Olive oil 1
Onion sauce 1
Parmesan cheese 1
Pineapple 1
Plain flour 2
Pork pie 1
Potted Salmon with butter !
Pressed pork 1
Raspberry jam 2
Rum 1
Salad cream 2
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