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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
Sutton 1967
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Sutton]
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Water.
Thirty-nine samples of water were reported as satisfactory.
Registration of Milk Distributors.
The number of Milk Distributors registered under the Milk and Dairies (General)
Regulations. 1959. is 61.
Designated licences in force, under the Milk (Special Designation) Regulations,
1963, (as amended), during the year were as follows
Dealer's (Pre-packed Milk)
Sterilised 61
Pasteurised 80
Untreated 25
Ultra Heat Treated 30
Dealer's (Pasteuriser's) 1
Unsound Pood.
The following quantities of food found to be unsound, diseased or unwholesome and unfit for human consumption were surrendered and destroyed :-
| Type of Pood | Unwrapped Pood | Wrapped Pood | |
|---|---|---|---|
| lbs. | ozs. | Number of Containers | |
| Beverages | 5 | ||
| Cereals | 69 | ||
| Cheese | 1 | ||
| Confectionery Flour | 164 | 8 | 559 |
| Confectionery Sugar | 529 | 8 | 1,797 |
| Cream | 2 | ||
| Fish | 445 | 9 | 142 |
| Prozen Pood | 392 | 12,331 | |
| Fruit | 38 | 12 | 257 |
| Fruit Juice | 149 | ||
| Ice Cream | 50 | 35 | |
| Meat | 1,396 | 5 | |
| Meat Canned | 541 | ||
| Meat Cooked | 4 | 2 | |
| Milk | - | 9 | |
| Preserves | 20 | - | 2 |
| Soup | |||
| Vegetables | 8 | 151 ! | |
| Miscellaneous | 1 | 14 | |
| 3,049 | 12 | 16,079 | |
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