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 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.
The cases are summarised below :—
No. | Offence | Result | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1. | Particles of steel in bread | Fine — | £5 | 0 | 0 |
Costs — | 15 | 0 | |||
2. | Metal in bread | Fine — | £2 | 10 | o — |
Costs — | 7 | 6 | |||
3. | Cigarette end in fruit | Fine — | £2 | 10 | 0 ~ |
cake | Costs — | 7 | 6 | ||
4. | Shredded tobacco in loaf | Fine — | £2 | 10 | 0 |
Costs — | 7 | 6 | |||
5. | Cigarette end in chocolate | Fine — | £5 | 0 | 0 |
sponge cake | Costs — | 2 | 6 | ||
6. | Glass in bread | Fine — | £2 | 10 | 0 |
Costs — | 7 | 6 | |||
7. | Glass in bread | Fine — | £2 | 10 | 0 |
Costs — | 7 | 6 | |||
8. | Cigarette end in bread | Fine — | £5 | 0 | 0 |
Costs — | 2 | 6" | |||
9. | Particles of steel in | Fine — | £25 | 0 | 0 |
bread | Costs — | 12 | 6 | ||
10. | Nail in rock cake | Fine — | £2 | 0 | 0 |
11. | Pin in scone | Fine — | £2 | 10 | 0 |
Costs — | 12 | 6 |
(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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