London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
View report page
Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Tottenham 1956
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Tottenham]
This page requires JavaScript
Continued from previous page...
| Roes | 7 | Tomatoes | 1, 259 |
| Salmon | 3 | Tomato juice | 4 |
| Salmon salad | 3 | Tomato Paste | 19 |
| Sausages | 10 | Tomato Puree | 5 |
| Soup | 230 | Tomato Pulp | 3 |
| Spaghetti | 106 | Tongue | 17 |
| Strained food | 15 | Vegetables | 1 299 |
| Syrup | 1 | Unlabelled tins | 11 |
| Other articles of food condemned | |||
| Bacon | 7 23 1 bs. | Kidney | 22 lbs. |
| Biscuits | 1½ IbS. | Malyos | 21 pkts. |
| Biscuits (chocolate) | 1 pkt. | Meat | 9 38¼ lbs. |
| Calves plucks | 14 1 bs. | Marm1ade | 1 jar |
| Cake | 9 lbs. | Mincemeat | 7 jars |
| Cake mix | 13 pkts. | Oats | 1 pkt. |
| Cakes | 2 | Pickle | 5 bottles |
| Cabbage | 1 jar | Processed meat | 78 lbs. |
| Cereal | 114 pkts. | Processed wheat | 10 pkts. |
| Cheesespread | 10 pkts. | Puddings | 5 |
| Cheese | 1 pkt. | Onions | 6 jars |
| Chicken | 1 | Rice | 17 lbs. |
| Cooking fat | 1 l b. | Ryvita | 2 pkts. |
| Cordial | 1 Bottle | Sauce | 21 bottles |
| Custard | 5 pkts. | Suet | 21ft lbs. |
| Dried fruit | 80 lbs. | Salt | 1 pkt. |
| Dates | 25 pkts. | Salt | 2 blocks |
| Fish | 27 stone 8 lbs. | Stuffing | 11 pkts. |
| Flour | 11 bags | Vegetables | 56 lbs. |
| Flour | 248 lbs. | Vegetables | 14 jars |
| Gherkins | 5 jars | Vinegar | 1 jar |
| Grapes | 35 lbs. | Vita Wheat | 3 pkts. |
| Icing Sugar | 7 pkts. | Yeast | 56 lbs. |
| Livers | 22 lbs. | ||
Food Sampling
The Public Control Department of the Middlesex County Council
has supplied the following information of food and drugs sampling
in the Borough during 1956,