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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

Chingford 1948

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Chingford]

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manufacture were outside the area of the Borough, and in these
cases notification was forwarded to the authorities concerned.
In a further three instances letters of warning were sent in connection
with foreign substances in food where evidence was
judged to be insufficient to warrant legal proceedings.

Table: The cases are summarised below :—

The cases are summarised below :—

No.OffenceResult
1.Particles of steel in breadFine —£500
Costs —150
2.Metal in breadFine —£210o —
Costs —76
3.Cigarette end in fruitFine —£2100 ~
cakeCosts —76
4.Shredded tobacco in loafFine —£2100
Costs —76
5.Cigarette end in chocolateFine —£500
sponge cakeCosts —26
6.Glass in breadFine —£2100
Costs —76
7.Glass in breadFine —£2100
Costs —76
8.Cigarette end in breadFine —£500
Costs —26"
9.Particles of steel inFine —£2500
breadCosts —126
10.Nail in rock cakeFine —£200
11.Pin in sconeFine —£2100
Costs —126

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(Note—Cases taken under Section 9 of the Food and Drug Act, 1938).
Meat and Other Foods.
There is one licensed slaughterhouse and twenty-five
butchers' shops in the area; the visits paid to these and other
retail trade premises numbered 307.
The following list gives details of the diseased or unsound
meat and other articles found unfit for human consumption,
which were voluntarily surrendered and destroyed or used for
animal feeding purposes, or returned to the Ministry of Food
for processing purposes :—
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