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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

Merton and Morden 1940

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Merton & Morden]

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Table: UNSOUND FOOD—1941.

UNSOUND FOOD—1941.

Description.Cause of Condemnation.
Bacon—4¾lbs.Bone taint
Soup—15 tinsUnsound
Sardines—79 tins”
Meat Pies—4½ doz.”
Pork Sausage—28 lbs.”
Salmon—316 tins”
Herrings—11 tins”
Witch Soles—2 stone”
Pig's Kidney—1”
Pineapple—936 tins”
1942
Description.Cause of Condemnation.
Beef—130½ lbs.Tuberculosis
Baked Beans—333 TinsUnsound
Butter—5½ lbs.”
Corned Beef—57 Tins”
Cheese—65 lbs.”
Calf's Head—1Decomposition
Carrots—28 TinsUnsound
Cod—10 stone”
Eggs—60”
Ham—43 Tins”
Herrings—17 Tins”
Luncheon Meat—17 Tins”
Luncheon Pork—50 Tins”
Margarine—6 lbs.”
Mackerel—21 Tins”
Milk—527 Tins”
Peas—302 Tins”
Pineapple—159 Tins”
Pilchards—60 Tins”
Plums—675 Tins”
Peaches—72 Tins”
Salmon—42 Tins”
Soups—71 Tins”
Sausage Meat—81 Tins”
Sago—2 cwts.”
Lamb—1 carcase 24 lbs.Decomposition
Pig—1 carcase 40 lbs.Tuberculosis
Tomatoes—68 TinsUnsound

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Meat Inspection. The establishment of central abattoir
schemes since the war has resulted in practically all meat
coming into the district from wholesale markets outside the
district.
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