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Tottenham 1941

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Tottenham]

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INSPECTION OF FACTORIES.
Inspections of factories and workplaces totalled 140.
48 visits were paid to Outworkers' premises.
INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OF FOOD.
MILK SUPPLIES.
There are no Farms or Cowsheds in the District,
but 83 visits were paid to premises retailing milk supplies.
MILK (SPECIAL DESIGNATIONS) ORDERS. 1956 and 1938.
These designations may only be used under licence
from the local authority. In 1941, the following licences
were granted.
Tuberculin Tested Milk Licences:
Bottlers' Licences 2
Dealers' Licences 10
Supplementary Licences 3
Accredited Milk Licences -
Pasteurised Milk Licences:
Pasteurisers' Licences 2
Dealers' Licences 16
Supplementary Licences 4
MEAT AND OTHER FOODS.
None of the Slaughter Houses in the District are
in use.
97 visits were paid to Butchers' Shops.
32 " " " " Fish Shop3
30 " " " " Fruiterers' Shops
43 " " " „ Bakehouses.
Miscellaneous Unsound Foodstuffs dealt with.
1,346 tins milk; 47 tins peas; 18 tins baked beans;
16 tins stewed steak; 2 tins chopped ham; 3 tins sausage meat;
22 lbs. luncheon sausage; 1½ lbs. sausage meat; 4 tins luncheon
meat; 6 lbs. luncheon meat; 1 tin canned meat; 1 tin emergency
meal; 15 tins salmon; 5 tins pilchards; 3 tins sardines; 3 tins
herrings; 34- tins fruit; 151 cases dried apricots; 10 tins
carrots; 1 tin and 50 lbs. brawn; 15 tins spaghetti; 8 tins
soup; 3 bottles pickled onions; 3 bottles pickles; 1 jar pickles;
32 tins jam; 20 jellies; 2 cwt . sweets; 2½ cwt, biscuits;
108 lbs. slab cake; 26 lbs. cake; 2 jars sandwich paste;
2 jars fish paste; 1,758 eggs; 164 duck's eggs; 22 lbs. cheese;
1 box cheese; 2 cwt. potatoes; 61 lbs. onions; 202 oranges;
112 lbs. pears; 5 boxes apples; 9 lbs. ox liver; 5 stone cod
roes; 6 stone coley; 2 qurs. skate wings; 3 stone skate;
5 boxes kippers; 8 stone witches; 6 stones lemon soles;
5 stone cod fillets; 7 stone rock eel; 2 bags rice; 38 lbs. 11 oz.
bacon; 4 hind qrs. beef; 2 fore ends beef; 12 .lbs. 4 oz. fore end;
1 chicken; 2¼ lbs. chicken; 3 qrs. 10 lbs. butter; 41 rabbits;
19 qrs. 18 lbs. rabbits; 1 pig's head.
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