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Mitcham 1957

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Mitcham]

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Double Cream 1
Pickled Onions 1
Bicarbonate of Soda 1
Sardines 2
Sweets 1
Garden Peas 3
Rhubarb 1
Custard Powder 1
Ready Mix Ice Cream 1
Canadian Flap Jacks 1
Table Salt 1
Sugar 1
Cheese 1
Liver Salts 1
Dressed Crab 1
Skip SunKaplus 1
Cheese with Ham 1
Swiss Roll 1
Minced Turkey 2
Pickling Spice 1
Batter Mix 1
Butterfat 2
Frankfurter Sausages 1
Luncheon Meat 2
Fish Paste 1
Pepper 1
Tomato Puree 1
Soft Icing Fondant 1
Curry Powder 1
The following samples were not satisfactory and warning letters
were sent to the firms concerned: —
Formal.—Pork sausage with beans in tomato sauce, cream of mushroom
soup, minced turkey, Ferguzade, tomato juice, milk
shake.
Informal.—Cake mixture, luncheon meat.
On complaints being received the following cases were reported
to the Public Health Committee: —
One of a foreign body in sponge cake.
One of a foreign body in bacon.
One of a foreign body in orange squash.
One of a foreign body in a cut loaf.
One of a mouldy sausage roll.
Warning letters were sent to the firms concerned in these cases.
Ice-Cream
Three premises in the Borough are registered for the manufacture
of ice-cream and 142 for the storage of ice-cream. Seventy visits
were Daid during the vear.
Eight samples of ice-cream were taken and examined for bacteriological
purity. The results are tabulated below: —