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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 1947
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Brentford and Chiswick]
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UNSOUND FOOD.
List of Food Condemned during the year 1947.
Fruit and Vegetables:
Beans, Broad 587 baskets
Beans, French 618 baskets
Brussels Sprouts 129¾ cwts.
Brussels Tops 45 bags
Cabbage 5 bags
Carrots 50¼ cwts.
Celery 2520 lbs.
Celery 895 rolls
Cherries 684 pannets
Dates 32½ lbs.
Leeks 5 tons
Melons 21 cases
Onions 61½ cwts.
Peaches 314 cases
Pears 506 boxes
Tomatoes 12 lbs.
Meat:
Beef 375¼ lbs.
Beef, Minced 24 lbs.
Chicken 195 lbs.
Duck 25 lbs.
Pigs' Heads 20 lbs.
Rabbits 122 lbs.
Sausages (Beef) 22 lbs.
Sausages (Pork) 96½ lbs.
Sausages (Vienna) 10½ lbs.
Sausage Meat 16 lbs.
Steak, Stewed 12 lbs.
Turkey 1 lb.
Fish:
Cod 4 stone
Cod Fillets 3 stone
Crawfish Tails 20 lbs.
Dogfish 12 stone
Fillet, Smoked 17 stone
Hake 5 stone
Herrings, Fresh 16 stone
Kippers 13 stone
Lemon Sole 6 stone
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