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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
Brentford and Chiswick 1945
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Brentford and Chiswick]
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Number of Supplementary Licences issued to sell :—
(a) Pasteurised Milk 2
(b) Tuberculin Tested Milk 2
Bakehouses.
Number in district in use 17
Contraventions of Factory Acts —
UNSOUND FOOD.
List of Food Condemned during the year 1945.
Fruit and Vegetables :—
Brussels Sprouts 409 lbs.
Cabbages 4 tons 5 cwts.
Cauliflower 2 tons 2 qtrs. 40 lbs.
Celery 1239 bundles
Dates 81 lbs.
Figs 21¼ lbs.
Leeks 115 nets
Potatoes 1 ton 15 cwts.
Watercress 5 chips
Meat :—
Beef 14 ozs.
Duck 2½ lbs.
Mutton 4½ lbs.
Pork 42 lbs.
Pork Offal 5 lbs.
Rabbits 464½ lbs.
Sausages (Pork) 137 lbs.
Sausage Meat 39½ lbs.
Fish:—
Assorted Wet Fish 94½ stones
Cod 8 stones
Fresh Herrings 6 stones
Mackerel 1 quarter
Plaice 5 stones
Smoked Haddock 4 stones
Soft Roes 5 boxes
Whiting 20 stones
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