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Mitcham 1959

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Mitcham]

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Dairies registered under the Milk and Dairies Regulations,
1949 1
Number of inspections of registered food premises during
the year 312
All condemned food is either incinerated at the Refuse Destructor,
Garth Road, Morden, by arrangement with the Merton and Morden
Urban District Council, or treated with dye and disposed of to fat
and bone merchants.
FOOD AND DRUGS ACT, 1955
Formal Samples.
Ninety formal samples were taken as follows:—
Milk 47 Cheese and Tomato Spread 1
Redcurrant Jelly Jam 1 Pork Luncheon Meat 1
Margarine (10% Butter) 7 Rich Fruit Cake 1
Sultanas 1 Beef Sausages 2
Coconut Culinary Flavour 1 Cream 1
Meat Pudding 1 Ground Cinnamon 1
Pure Dairy Butter 5 Blackcurrant Jam 1
Beef Pudding 1 English Cheddar Cheese 1
Processed Peas 1 Indigestion Tablets 1
Mint in Vinegar 1 Toothache Tincture 1
Pork Sausage Meat 1 Fresh Shrimps
Pure Lard 1 (Confectionery) 1
Pure Dripping 1 Lemonade Powder 1
Tablets of Aspirin 1 Table Jelly 1
White Pepper 1 Gravy Powder 1
Orange Squash 1 Jam Pudding (Plum) 1
Peeled Potatoes 1 Pork Sausages 1
Informal Samples
Eighty-eight informal samples were taken as follows:—
Batter and Pancake Mixture 1 Split Tin Loaf 1
Sponge Sandwich with Double Cream 1
Pure Butter Filling 1 Golden Glucose Syrup 1
Potted Crab with Butter 1 Mustard 1
Stoned Dates (Pasteurised) 1 Pure Ground Coffee 1