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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 1946
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Brentford and Chiswick]
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Bakehouses.
Number in district in use 17
Contraventions of Factory Acts -
UNSOUND FOOD.
List of Food Condemned during the year 1946.
Fruit and Vegetables:
Carrots 160 bags
Cauliflower 49 cwts.
Chestnuts 85 lbs.
Parsnips 80 bags
Walnuts 24 lbs.
Meat:
Beef 836¾ lbs.
Chicken 3¾ lbs.
Lamb 85 lbs.
Mutton 2½ lbs.
Ox Tails 1252¾ lbs.
Pigs' Heads 66½ lbs.
Porkl½ lbs.
Pork Offal 26 lbs.
Rabbits 25 lbs.
Sausages (Beef) 17 lbs.
Sausages (Pork) 17½ lbs.
Sausage Meat 3¾ lbs.
Veal 6¼ lbs.
Fish:
Cod 124 stones
Eels 56 lbs.
Fillet, Smoked 7 stones
Hake 10 stones
Whiting, Smoked 10 stones
General Provisions:
Bacon 208¾ lbs.
Barley 29½ lbs.
Beans, Butter 2 lbs.
Biscuits 1026¾ lbs.
Black Pudding 2¼ lbs.
Bread 1¾ lbs.
Butter 54 lbs.
Cereal Sweepings 13 cwts.
Cheese 325 ¼lbs.
Chocolate 2 oz. bars—130
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