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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
Malden and Coombe 1951
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Malden & Coombe]
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FOOD SUPPLY.
As far as practicable watch is kept on premises where
foodstuffs are prepared or sold, which includes butchers' and
fishmongers' shops, bakehouses, dairies, restaurant kitchens, etc.
Various sections of this report deal with foods and make it
unnecessary to report more fully under this head..
The following unfit foodstuffs were voluntarily surrendered and destroyed or handed over for salvage:—
| Fish, wet | 281 lbs. |
| Fish | 21 tins |
| Eggs | 298 |
| Fruit | 201 tins |
| Vegetables | 205 tins |
| Beans, baked | 96 tins |
| Tomato ketchup | 1 bottle |
| Tomato juice | 18 tins |
| Milk, condensed | 2 tins |
| Milk, evaporated | 48 tins |
| Milk, full cream | 4 tins |
| Milk, skimmed | 3 tins |
| Milk, dried | 525 lbs. |
| Crawfish | 2 tins |
| Braised kidneys | 1 tin |
| Meat and Gravy | 4 tins |
| Sheeps tongue | 1 tin |
| Jam or marmalade | 23 tins |
| Soups, various | 218 tins |
| Luncheon meat | 38 tins |
| Sauce | 1 bottle |
| Herrings roes | 3 tins |
| Ham, veal or beef loaf | 2 tins |
| Braised steak | 1 tin |
| Oranges | 2 cases |
| Spaghetti | 2 tins |
| Spaghetti | 39 lbs. |
| Jellied eels | 3 tins |
| Meat paste | 34 jars |
| Gammon | 90 lbs. |
| Bacon, Polish | 30 lbs. |
| Ham, tinned | 331 lbs. |
| Mincement | 8 tins |
| Pork pies | 48 |
| Orange juice | 11 tins |
| Pease puddings | 3 tins |
| Salt | 8 pkts. |
| Block barley | 2 cwt. |
| Lentils | 40 lbs. |
| Sago | 80 lbs. |
| Flour | 70 lbs. |
| Barley pudding | 92 pkts. |
| Figs | 56 lbs. |
| Sausages | 6 tins |
| Ox tongues | 1 tin |
| Rice | 6 lbs. |
| Pickles | 2 jars |
| Beef | 213 lbs. |