London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

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City of London 1964

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

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118 Lambs, 74 rabbits, 20 sheep, 10 ewes, 264 ctns ox meat, 94 ctns beef, 8 ctns veal, 39 livers, 7 ctns butter, parts ex 24 lambs and 2 sheep and quantity other meat and offal, dirty, diseased, damaged, stained, bacteriologically contaminated, iced and dock-water damaged220
Other Districts
3783 Ctns boneless meats - salmonellae contamination-sterilisation11116
8 Bags loose-collected and dirty meat - sterilisation3
788 Quarters paint tainted meat - for ozonisation5516
182 Qtrs fire damaged beef - for sterilisation115
4615 Ctns bacteriologically contaminated beef - for sterilisation12418
631 Ctns salmonellae contaminated cow-meat for sterilisation170
584 Ctns livers - for 100% examination129
1791 Ctns ox livers - for 100% examination4811
108 Ctns salmonellae contaminated bobby veal - for sterilisation217
844 Ctns mutton - to be reshipped as ships stores only816
561 Ctns salmonellae contaminated kangaroo meat - for sterilisation161
39 Bags wet damaged nuts - for sorting117
84 Bags weevilly nutmegs - for oil distillation218
49 Cases shelled walnuts - for sorting110
20 Bags wet stained almonds and almond sweepings - for sorting17
Quantity wet-damaged groundnuts - for cleansing71
18 Bags peanut kernels - sweepings - for re-conditioning18
Quantity uncertified lard - for animal feed or soap making3800
Bulk tallow - no official certificates - for soap making.19915
43 Ctns dirty butter - for reconditioning14
3833 Crushed Ctns tomato puree - for sorting10215
671 Crates wasty tomatoes - for sorting412
12 Cases olives - for sorting and reconditioning6
230 cases over-ripe melons - for sorting412
108 Bags wet-stained rice - for sorting414
178 Bags carbon - black contaminated rice - for sorting and cleansing818
65 Bags wet-damaged and mouldy flour - for industrial purposes41
Quantity damaged tea and tea sweepings - for chemical and fertiliser manufacture3117
10,641 Bags D.D.T. contaminated potatoes - for cleansing6268
10 Bales insect - infested dried fish - for cleansing12
Animal Feeding
4877 Bags wet damaged and lamp-black damaged flour27418
20 Ctns wet-damaged milk powder11
50 Bags wet-damaged beans11
Quantity wheat from sunken barge1800
9 Bags dock-water damaged wheat111
115 Ctns wet-damaged sultanas110
196 Bags wet and dock water damaged rice911
76 Bags carbon black damaged rice37
66 Bags wet and rodent damaged peas and pea sweepings316
18 Ctns rodent damaged red beans10
Quantity stive-dust sweepings250
9 Bags oil-stained lentils9
6000 Ctns bacteriologically sub-standard beef steaks830
598 Ctns canned meat - no official certificates612
62 Bags Sugar Sweepings417
35 Bags tapioca sweepings116
44 Bags graphite damaged soya flour24
3 Bags rodent damaged wheat germ4
28 Bags damaged rolled oats17
225 Bags wet damaged and mouldy groundnuts45
570 Bags wet and rotting potatoes290
250 Ctns bacteriologically contaminated Kangaroo meat310
8 Bags dock water damaged wheat gluten8
Refining
Quantity sugar - carrier barge sank5700
20 Bags dirty sugar17
Re-Exported
3 Ctns Hams - no official certificates1
30 Ctns meat products - no official certificates10
14 Ctns meat - no official certificates4
30 Ctns Mutton-in-Rice - no official certificates12
3445 Ctns tomato puree- excess copper; high mould count8115
352 Ctns livers - no official certificates94
20 Ctns anchovy paste - prohibited preservative6