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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
Mitcham 1961
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Mitcham]
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| The storage and sale of ice-cream | 169 |
| The manufacture for sale of ice-cream | 1 |
| The preparation or manufacture of sausages, or potted, pressed, pickled or preserved food | 40 |
| Dairies registered under the Milk and Dairies (General) Regulations, 1959 | 1 |
| Number of inspections of registered food premises during the year | 454 |
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
| Fifty formal samples were taken as follows: — | |||
| Milk | 33 | Beef Sausages | 3 |
| Pork Sausages | 5 | Salmon Fish Cakes | 1 |
| Plum Jam | 1 | Chop Sauce | 1 |
| Mentholated Balsam | 1 | Hamburgers | 1 |
| Dairy Butter | 2 | Minced Beef | 1 |
| Blackcurrant Juice | 1 | ||
| Eighty-nine informal samples were taken as follows: — | |||
| Instant Coffee | 2 | Double Devon Cream | 1 |
| Casserole Meat | 1 | Apple Sauce | 1 |
| Custard Powder | 2 | Dairy Cream Doughnuts | 1 |
| Fruit Pudding | 1 | Mince Meat | 2 |
| Cheese Spread | 3 | Chicken Noodle Soup | 1 |
| Crab Spread, with Butter | 1 | Stewed Steak | 1 |
| Ground Almonds | 1 | Instant Mashed Potatoes | 1 |
| Norway Sild in Oil | 1 | Corned Beef | 1 |
| Steaklets | 1 | Creamery Butter | 1 |