[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Port of London] page 27

City of London 1963

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

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Buried	Tons	Cwts.
2025 cartons & approximately 13,600 cans & jars fruits, juices, pulps, vegetables, meat and fish - leakv, blown, broken, burst	88	7
5400 cartons canned sweet corn — surrendered following discovery of manufacturing fault	54	5
12 barrels fat ends — out of condition	2	19
214 cartons macaroni — wet and vermin damaged	2	14
6 barrels chutney & pickles — open and dirty	—	16
57 bags rice — wet and vermin damaged	5	1
29 bags nut sweepings	1	4
150 cartons currants & raisins - oil & wet damaged	2	17
34 bags senna pods and quantity loose collected - fire smoke and water damaged following fire on board ship	6	5
10 cartons meat — dock water damaged	—	4
10 bags bitter leaves — bacterial contamination	—	10
10 bags egusi — bacterial contamination	—	8
Quantity miscellaneous foodstuffs — fire damaged in warehouse	14	2
Quantity tea sweepings — dirty	-	3
1 chest tea — dock water damaged	—	1
5500 (approx.) packages fresh fruit & vegetables — wasty & dock water damaged	374	5
Quantity wasty bananas & banana waste	2300	7
Contractor
807 lambs, 25 sheep, 62 ewes, 29 packages veal, 14 cartons boneless meat, 375 packages offal and quantity other carcase meat and offal — dirty, diseased,damaged, stained, bacterial contamination, dock water damaged	32	9
Other Districts
2244 carcases lambs, wethers and ewes and 713 cartons lambs' offal — smoke tainted — released for reconditioning and ozonization	73	4
96 bags ox livers — diseased — released for 100% examination	2	15
1046 ewes - mutilated, dirty & stained — released for manufacturing use	19	4
5768 packages boneless beef - bacterial contamination - for sterilization	320	2
168 cartons frozen cooked chicken meat — poor bacteriological report — for high temperature processing into paste	5	5
1526 ctns. corned beef and 81 ctns. tongues — stained — released for sorting	30	18
Quantity lard in a barge — dirty and palm oil tainted — released for refining	13	8
508 cartons fats — rancid, dock water damaged, dirty - released for reconditioning and/or processing	3	17
76 bags flour — oil stained — for reconditioning	4	15
10,000 cartons and quantity loose collected sultanas and dates — smoke and wet damaged following a fire on board — released for sorting	1928	0
53 bags and quantity senna pods - fire and wet damaged following fire on board — released for chemical use	19	10
874 bags tea and quantity sweepings — wet and dirty — released for chemical and fertiliser use	43	0
12,320 packages fresh fruit and vegetables — wasty	263	13
18 bags nutmegs — out of condition — released for oil distillation	1	0
10 drums fat — no official certificate — released for grease making	1	8
1 drum honey — dirty — released for filtering and refining	-	5
20 cartons dried egg — bacterial contamination — released for heat treatment	-	7
621 packages fresh apples — sea water damaged — released for washing	12	9
160 bags wet and mouldy rice — released for starch making	14	14
12 bags wet damaged turmeric powder — released for sorting	—	18
Animal Feeding
Quantity ship's rejected stores	-	2
355 bags flour — dock water damaged, carbon black damaged and rejected stores	17	0
47 bags beef — dirty and stained	2	9
1393 bags vegetables — wet, wasty, sweepings	46	15
686 bags nuts — sweepings and wet	2	7
23 bags rice — wet	1	0
1597 packages dried fruit — wet and dirty	21	10
30 bags figs — rodent damaged	—	8
1915 packages boneless meats — bacterial contamination	52	14
128 packages milk powder — rodent damaged	4	0