London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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
Tottenham 1950
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Tottenham]
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Other articles of food condemned were as follows
| Apricots | ljar | Marmalade | 3 jars |
| Bacon | 166 lbs. | Marzipan | 56 lbs. |
| Bananas | 30 lbs. | Meat Paste | 1 jar |
| Beef | 5 57¾ lbs. | Mincemeat | 1 jar |
| Biscuits | 42 lbs. | Mints | 2 lbs. |
| Bovril | ljar | Mixed Fruit | 1 bottle |
| Bread | 1 loaf | Mutton | 84 lbs. |
| Cake | 2664 lbs. | Nougat | 1¼ lbs. |
| Cheese | 11¾lbs. | Oats | 4 packets |
| Chocolate | 6 lbs. | Onions | 1 jar |
| Chocolate Caramel Candy | 14 lbs. | Orange Juice | 18 bottles |
| Chocolate Creams | Pastry Mix | 63 packets | |
| Cod | 6 stone | Pickles | 18 jars |
| Codling | 8 stone | Pork | 10 lbs. |
| Cooking Fat | 1 lb . | Prunes | 38 lbs. |
| Currants | 199 lbs. | Salami Sausage | 7 tons 1 cwt. |
| Dates | 85 lbs. | Salt | 1 cwt. |
| Desiccated Coconut | 130 lbs. | Sauce | 26 bottles |
| Dogfish | 5 stone | Sausage Rusk | 1 cwt. |
| Eggs | 180 | Sheep's Heads | 358 lbs. |
| Fish Roe | 63 lbs. | Skate | 21 stone |
| Flour | 140 lbs. | Smoked Herring Fillets | 16 jars |
| Fruit Cordial | 152 bottles | Sultanas | 31 lbs. |
| Ham | 6 lbs. | Tea | 2½ lbs. |
| Honey | 1 jar | Tomatoes | 140 lbs. |
| Jam | 1 jar | Tongue | 4 lbs. 1 4oz |
| Lamb | 3lbs.14 oz. | Turkish Delight | 294 lbs. |
| Lemon Squash | 37 bottles | Vinegar | 6 bottles |
| Liver | 45¼lbs. | Vita-Wheat | 1 packet |
| Margarine | 2 lbs. |
Food Sampling.
The Public Control Department of the Middlesex County Council
has supplied the following information on food and drugs sampling
in the borough during 1950:-