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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 1950
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for West Ham]
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The food condemned during the year Included the following:–
| Baby Food | 433 | tins |
| Bacon | 124 | lbs. |
| Beans | 2016 | tins |
| Bovril | 1 | bottle |
| Butter & Peanut Butter | 2 | tins |
| Cabbage | 1 | sack |
| Cakes (Fruit) | 5 | cases |
| 60 | lbs. | |
| Cake Mixture | 7 | tins |
| Cheese | 243¼ | lbs. |
| Cheese Waste | 135 | lbs. |
| Chicken | 119½ | lbs. |
| 2 | tins | |
| Chicken (Cooked) | 8 | |
| Chocolate | 12 | bars |
| 93 doz. | bars | |
| Chocolate Spread | 1 | tin |
| 1 | lb. | |
| Chocolate Waste | 3½ | tons |
| Cockles | 1 | bag |
| 38 | lbs. | |
| Cocoa, Bournvita etc. | 2 | tins |
| Coffee Powder | 6 | tins |
| Cooking Fat | 13/4 | cwts. |
| Corned Beef | 328 | tins |
| Dates | 12 | lbs. |
| Eggs | 346½ | doz. |
| Fish (Wet) | 26½ | cwts. |
| Fish (Tinned) | 2102 | tins |
| Fish Paste | 110 | tins |
| Flour | 156 | lbs. |
| Flour Waste | 1 | ton |
| Fowl | 150 | lbs. |
| Fruit (Fresh) | 6IO5 | lbs. |
| Fruit (Tinned) | 2133 | tins |
| Fruie juice | 36 | tins |
| Fruit Pulp | 414 | lbs. |
| Grape Nut Waste | 9½ | cwts. |
| Hams | 3 | |
| Jam | 626 | tins |
| J e 1 ly | 10 | |
| Me at | 1683 | lbs. |
| Meat (Tinned) | 3332 | tins |
| Milk (Tinned) | 10407 | tins |
| Milk (Malted) | 88 | tins |
| Mineerneat | 4 | jars |
| Mustard | 28 doz. | tins |
| Onions | 50 | |
| Pastry (Mixed) | 6 | cases |