[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Port of London] page 29

City of London 1962

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Port of London]

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Table: Of the 5,065 tons listed above the principal items and methods of disposal consisted of:—

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Of the 5,065 tons listed above the principal items and methods of disposal consisted of:—

	Tons.	Cwts.
Burnt
140 ctns. & approx. 2,455 tins, tubes, fruits, juices, pulps, vegetables, meats and fish — burst, blown or leaky	10	10
Bananas — wasty	29	2
425 ctns. fresh peas, beans, carrots — wasty & wet damaged	2	19
1,244 tins crude black molasses — dock water damaged	—	16
10 cases, 70 bags and quantity loose potatoes — wasty	9	3
Ships rejected stores	4	11
51 cases oranges — damaged and wasty	1	15
61 bags ground nuts in shell — wet damaged	—	15
Boiling Down
420 lambs, 593 sheep, 5 qrs. Beef, 9 veal sides, 206 ctns. lambs livers, 275 ctns. offal and quantity other carcase meat and offal — stained, diseased, dock water damaged, dirty soft, decomposed and mouldy.	49	12
Buried
1,997 ctns. 21 cases and 17,482 cans fruits, juices, pulps vegetables, meats and fish — burst blown and leaky ....	58	19
Wasty Bananas — Banana Waste	2,291	8
11,471 bags onions — wasty	258	9
Quantity of Raw Sugar — contaminated by riverwater	83	12
2,040packages various vegetables — wet and wasty	13	3
2,l6lboxes, bags and quantity loose potatoes — wasty	68	17
46 casks Apricot Pulp — damaged with extraneous matter discoloured and mouldy	37	19
3,000 cases wasty clemantines	57	9
189 ctns. maize cob — wet and mouldy	5	-
100 ctns. wasty mangoes	3	13
28 barrels orange juice — decomposed	5	2
934 cases melons, 1,675 cases pomegranates, 14,449 bags onions, 1,976 cases onions, 2,975 ctns. canned fruits, 3 casks wine — salvaged cargo from sunken vessel	500	5
Animal Feeding
426 bags flour — ships rejected stores and wet damaged	18	12
Quantity rejected stores	4	6
2,700ctns. and 233 cases shrimps — decomposed	20	13
1,050 bags and boxes potatoes — wasty	24	1
21 ctns. and 1 bag milk powder — wet and dirty	-	10
Quantity damaged peas and beans	1	16
Released to other Districts
2,299 bags flour	142	12
3,000 ctns. wasty grapefruit — for sorting	56	14
13,892 bags and boxes tuber moth grub infested, wasty
potatoes & for sorting	401	10
3,069 ctns. boneless veal — salmonella contaminated —
for sterilization	85	15
1,940 smoke damaged lambs — for reconditioning	25	14
1,068 bags diseased livers — for 100% examination	48	12
1,048 bags rice — for cleaning and fumigation	53	5
540 crates carrots — for sorting	7	19
146 bags coffee — for sorting	6	10
500 ctns, wasty lemons — for sorting	8	18
Refining 965 bags dirty sugar sweepings	66	5
Re-Exported 583 bags damaged sugar	43	19
8,850 boxes tuber moth grub infested and wasty potatoes — for animal feeding	261	6
31 bags and quantity of tea — for chemical use	111	11
26 casks hog casings — no official certificates	2	-
11 barrels sheep casings — no official certificates	5	11
260 ctns. frozen beef kidneys - do -	6	5
557 ctns. livers - do -	6	9