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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
City of London 1930
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Port of London]
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The number of seizures of Foodstuffs made by the individual Inspectors during the year was as follows:—
| Inspector Garland | 107 |
| „ Rolfe | 435 |
| „ Burr | 142 |
| „ Berry | 479 |
| Sanitary Inspectors during temporary Food Inspection | 384 |
| 1,547 |
The number of detentions and seizures made annually during the last ten years were as follows:—
| Year. | No. of Seizures. | Year. | No. of Seizures. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1921 | 586 | 1926 | 1,620 |
| 1922 | 932 | 1927 | 1,369 |
| 1923 | 848 | 1928 | 1,436 |
| 1924 | 992 | 1929 | 1,569 |
| 1925 | 1,196 | 1930 | 1,547 |
Districts in which Foodstuffs were seized during the year:—
| Royal Albert Dock | 389 |
| Royal Victoria Dock | 185 |
| King George Y. Dock | 73 |
| East India Dock | 5 |
| West India Dock | 78 |
| South West India Dock | 9 |
| Millwall Dock | 33 |
| Surrey Commercial Dock | 76 |
| Poplar Dock | 1 |
| London Dock | 429 |
| St. Katharine Dock | 139 |
| Regent's Canal Dock | 38 |
| Tilbury Dock | 89 |
| River Thames | 3 |
| Total Seizures | 1,547 |
The detention and control of Fats under the Public Health (Imported Food) Regulations, 1925, during the year was as follows:—
| No. of casks, &c., reported as imported into the district | 29,052 |
| No. of casks, &c., found to be officially certificates | - |
| No. of casks, &c., released to wharves under Notice of Exportation | 11,340 |
| No. of Exportation Notices served | 363 |
| No. of casks, &c., released for exportation | 4,935 |
| No. of casks, &c., released for soapmaking, &c. | 19,719 |
| No. of casks, &c., in transit on through Bills of Lading | 535 |
9,446 barrels of whale oil also arrived in the Port; this material was released.
Imported Mutton Infected with Caseous Lymphadenitis.
The control of imported Mutton on account of Caseous Lymphadenitis, was
continued throughout the year, as described in the introduction to this Report.
Two conferences of Medical Officers of Health principally concerned in the
inspection of imported Mutton, were held at the Ministry of Health during the year,
one in March and one in December.
At the March meeting it was decided that although a very great improvement
in the condition of the Mutton arriving in English ports had resulted from the
institution of examination of carcases for Caseous Lymphadenitis in the countries
of origin, the standard of such examination was not yet uniformly good enough to
justify any further relaxation of the stringency of the examination in this country.
At the December meeting it was agreed that the standard of examination in
Australia and New Zealand had improved to such an extent that the routine sampling
might be reduced to live per cent, of imports from these two countries. In regard