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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
West Ham 1925
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for West Ham]
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Unsound Food Condemned.
Apples: 6561bs.
Apricots: 30 crates.
Beasts—
Crow Fats: 3.
Forequarters : 2.
Gut Fats: 3.
Heads: 14.
Heads, Collar & Mesentery :
1.
Kidneys: 1.
Livers: 92 and 76^1bs.
Lungs: 104 pairs.
Mesenteries: 1.
Offal: 1.
Spleens: 5.
Tongues: 4.
Beef: 40st., 2 bodies & viscera,
1 body and offal, 2 carcases
and offal, 4 heads, collars
and tongues.
Brussel Sprouts: 20 bags.
Cherries: 501bs.
Grapes: 23 barrels.
Haddocks: 2 boxes and 1
trunk.
Herrings: 1 box.
Kippers : 1 box.
Lobster: 1 tin.
Mutton : 1 leg, 3 loins, 2 targets,
1 fore-end, 1 shoulder.
Mutton Trimmings : 301bs.
Ox Skirt: 1.
Pears: 41 boxes, 1 bushel.
Pigs : Bellies 7, codgut 1, crow
fats, omentum & spleens 3,
crow fats 13, carcase and
viscera 1, livers 56, loins 2,
lungs 60 pairs, mesenteries
24, plucks 54, spleens 12.
Plaice : 1st. and 1 box.
Pork: 4st. 1 hand.
PorkFat:
61bs.
Pickled: 21bs.
Roker Wings: 1 box.
Sheep—
Cauls : 4.
Livers : 35.
Lungs: 31 pairs.
Mesenteries: 1.
Plucks: 1.
Skate : 1 box.
Skate Wings: 8st. & 1 barrel.
Tomatoes: 64 boxes and 40
bundles.
Veal: 81bs.
Whelks: 1 bag.
Whiting: 5 boxes.
Winkles : 2 bags & 5 gallons.