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

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City of London 1966

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

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31 ctns. Crispbread — dock water damaged

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26 bags Red Marrows — wet damaged and rotted13
96 ctns. Apples — dock water damaged and wasty115
16 ctns. Apples - rodent damaged5
1 ctn. Hops — dock water damaged2
8 bags Onions — burst3
7 bags Lentils — wet damaged and sweepings6
33 bunches Bananas - oil stained19
3 ctns. Curried Meat Products - uncertificated1
179 baskets Egg Plants — wasty14
37 ctns. Currants — stained and broken9
30 barrels Mango Chutney — prohibited preservative10
2 barrels Mango Chutney — heads out and contents damaged2
200 ctns. Paw Paw — excess tin22
5 ctns. Sodium Caseinate — rodent damaged2
4 ctns. Grapefruit — dock water damaged2
5 casks Chow Chow — heads out and contents damaged5
5 bags Coffee — contaminated with exreta5
3 ctns. Foodstuffs — dock water damaged6
51 bags Pumpkins — wasty11
51 ctns. Frozen Prawns — wasty10
1 bag Maple Peas — sweat caked1
Buried
4,697 ctns, 34,157 tins and 984 jars of juices, pulps, fruit, vegetables,
meat and fish — burst, blown, broken or leaky1519
1 bag Almonds — rodent damaged1
24 ctns. Currants — wet damaged and dock water damaged6
17 ctns. Vegetables — flood damaged4
30 ctns. Macaroni - wet and grease damaged6
28 ctns. Macaroni — rodent damaged7
5 ctns. and 63 tubes Tomato Paste — stained and crushed2
433 baskets Tomatoes — wasty31
30 bags Rice — sweepings10
13 bags and 38 ctns. Rice - wet damaged11
17 bags Rice — rodent damaged14
20 ctns. Mayonnaise — contained prohibited preservative5
1 cask Walnuts in Brine — contents spilled and dirty4
Quantity Raw Sugar - contaminated with oil325
Quantity Raw Sugar — dock water damaged1500
11 bags Sugar — contaminated with Ship's overside discharge10
7 bags Dried Onions — dock water damaged3
1,734 ctns. and 28 bags Onions — wasty437
Quantity Banana Waste1,9125
16 casks Various Pickles — heads out and contents damaged111
7 bags Flour - sea water damaged7
2 bags Flour — dirty1
1 cask Strawberry Pulp — Heads stove in and contents damaged3
469 ctns. Marrow in Jars — soft and discoloured916
14 bags Ground Figs — contaminated with bilge water8
5 bags Buckwheat Groats — sweepings4
195 ctns. Aubergines - wasty16
64 crates Grapefruit — wasty23
40 baskets French Beans — wasty4
21 ctns. Meat and Offal — various reasons for condemnation13
133 bags Potatoes — wasty37
29 ctns. Marrows — wasty7
401 baskets Egg Plants — wasty215
8 cases Lemons — wasty4
20 ctns. Figs — rodent damaged3
22,505 trays Grapes - Wasty1973
7 bags Pecan Nuts — dock water damaged3
211 ctns. Oranges — acid damaged313
500 crates Celery — wasty140
145 ctns. Apples — smoke tainted216
6,057 bags Carrots — wasty1352
45 ctns. Frozen Peas — wet and wasty8
25 ctns. Grape Punch and 1 ctn. Barbecue Sauce — contained prohibited colouring matter9
14 ctns. Frozen Fish — soft and pungent11
37 ctns. Frozen Crab — soft and pungent10
264 ctns. Plantains — wasty411
Quantity Wheat Gluten — dock water damaged2
7 bags Dried Peas — rodent damaged and extraneous contamination3
4 cases Peshawari — mouldy and insect infested4
10 cases Dried Turnips — contained prohibited preservative6
131 bags Prunes — wet damaged317