Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Port of London]
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APPENDIX
UNSOUND FOOD.
Goods marked thus (*) were rejected by the owners and seized by the Port Sanitary Authority to prevent sale to small buyers.
Date. | Where seized. | Description of Goods. |
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1903. | Royal Albert Dock. | |
Jan. 9 | ex "Virginian" | 5 cases pears. |
„ 10 | ex "Oceana" | 37 crates oranges. |
„ 16 | ex"Karamea" | 86 crates bananas, 32 cases raspberry pulp. |
„ 30 | ex "Columbian" | 6 galls. tinned apples. |
„ 30 | ex "Karamea" | 96 crates bananas. |
„ 30 | ex "Duke of Westminster" | 12 lbs. tinned mutton. |
Feb. 6 | ex "Australasian" | 20 carcasses lamb. |
6 | ex "Columbian" | 2 barrels apples. |
6 | ex "Athenic" | 1 cwt. 1 qr. 25 lbs. cheese. |
„ 11 | ex "Warrigal" | 15 carcasses and 3 pieces mutton, 9 pieces beef, 37 ducks and chickens, 4 hares and 15 oxtails. |
„ 14 | ex "Athenic" | 1 cwt. 2 qrs. 24 lbs. cheese. |
„ 18 | ex "Candia" | Between 4,000 and 5,000 cokernuts. |
„ 23 | ex "Duke of Norfolk" | 78 tins herrings and tomato sauce. |
28 | ex "Sophocles" | 2 carcasses and 1 piece mutton. |
March 4 | ex "Gothic" | 3 cwts. 3 qrs. 5 lbs. cheese. |
4 | ex "Cambrian" | 1 barrel apples. |
„ 17 | ex "Rome" | 3 carcasses mutton, 125 carcasses and 2 pieces lamb, 7 crates rabbits. |
„ 17 | ex "Matatua" | 1 cwt. and 6 lbs. kidneys. |
„ 17 | ex "Kumara" | 6 cases kidneys. |
21 | ex "Matatua" | 1 carcass mutton. |
„ 23 | ex "Salamis" | 1 crate rabbits. |
„ 26 | ex "Philadelphian" | 19 barrels apples. |