Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[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 rotted | 13 | |
96 ctns. Apples — dock water damaged and wasty | 1 | 15 |
16 ctns. Apples - rodent damaged | 5 | |
1 ctn. Hops — dock water damaged | 2 | |
8 bags Onions — burst | 3 | |
7 bags Lentils — wet damaged and sweepings | 6 | |
33 bunches Bananas - oil stained | 19 | |
3 ctns. Curried Meat Products - uncertificated | 1 | |
179 baskets Egg Plants — wasty | 1 | 4 |
37 ctns. Currants — stained and broken | 9 | |
30 barrels Mango Chutney — prohibited preservative | 1 | 0 |
2 barrels Mango Chutney — heads out and contents damaged | 2 | |
200 ctns. Paw Paw — excess tin | 2 | 2 |
5 ctns. Sodium Caseinate — rodent damaged | 2 | |
4 ctns. Grapefruit — dock water damaged | 2 | |
5 casks Chow Chow — heads out and contents damaged | 5 | |
5 bags Coffee — contaminated with exreta | 5 | |
3 ctns. Foodstuffs — dock water damaged | 6 | |
51 bags Pumpkins — wasty | 1 | 1 |
51 ctns. Frozen Prawns — wasty | 1 | 0 |
1 bag Maple Peas — sweat caked | 1 | |
4,697 ctns, 34,157 tins and 984 jars of juices, pulps, fruit, vegetables, | ||
meat and fish — burst, blown, broken or leaky | 151 | 9 |
1 bag Almonds — rodent damaged | 1 | |
24 ctns. Currants — wet damaged and dock water damaged | 6 | |
17 ctns. Vegetables — flood damaged | 4 | |
30 ctns. Macaroni - wet and grease damaged | 6 | |
28 ctns. Macaroni — rodent damaged | 7 | |
5 ctns. and 63 tubes Tomato Paste — stained and crushed | 2 | |
433 baskets Tomatoes — wasty | 3 | 1 |
30 bags Rice — sweepings | 1 | 0 |
13 bags and 38 ctns. Rice - wet damaged | 1 | 1 |
17 bags Rice — rodent damaged | 14 | |
20 ctns. Mayonnaise — contained prohibited preservative | 5 | |
1 cask Walnuts in Brine — contents spilled and dirty | 4 | |
Quantity Raw Sugar - contaminated with oil | 32 | 5 |
Quantity Raw Sugar — dock water damaged | 150 | 0 |
11 bags Sugar — contaminated with Ship's overside discharge | 10 | |
7 bags Dried Onions — dock water damaged | 3 | |
1,734 ctns. and 28 bags Onions — wasty | 43 | 7 |
Quantity Banana Waste | 1,912 | 5 |
16 casks Various Pickles — heads out and contents damaged | 1 | 11 |
7 bags Flour - sea water damaged | 7 | |
2 bags Flour — dirty | 1 | |
1 cask Strawberry Pulp — Heads stove in and contents damaged | 3 | |
469 ctns. Marrow in Jars — soft and discoloured | 9 | 16 |
14 bags Ground Figs — contaminated with bilge water | 8 | |
5 bags Buckwheat Groats — sweepings | 4 | |
195 ctns. Aubergines - wasty | 1 | 6 |
64 crates Grapefruit — wasty | 2 | 3 |
40 baskets French Beans — wasty | 4 | |
21 ctns. Meat and Offal — various reasons for condemnation | 13 | |
133 bags Potatoes — wasty | 3 | 7 |
29 ctns. Marrows — wasty | 7 | |
401 baskets Egg Plants — wasty | 2 | 15 |
8 cases Lemons — wasty | 4 | |
20 ctns. Figs — rodent damaged | 3 | |
22,505 trays Grapes - Wasty | 197 | 3 |
7 bags Pecan Nuts — dock water damaged | 3 | |
211 ctns. Oranges — acid damaged | 3 | 13 |
500 crates Celery — wasty | 14 | 0 |
145 ctns. Apples — smoke tainted | 2 | 16 |
6,057 bags Carrots — wasty | 135 | 2 |
45 ctns. Frozen Peas — wet and wasty | 8 | |
25 ctns. Grape Punch and 1 ctn. Barbecue Sauce — contained prohibited colouring matter | 9 | |
14 ctns. Frozen Fish — soft and pungent | 11 | |
37 ctns. Frozen Crab — soft and pungent | 10 | |
264 ctns. Plantains — wasty | 4 | 11 |
Quantity Wheat Gluten — dock water damaged | 2 | |
7 bags Dried Peas — rodent damaged and extraneous contamination | 3 | |
4 cases Peshawari — mouldy and insect infested | 4 | |
10 cases Dried Turnips — contained prohibited preservative | 6 | |
131 bags Prunes — wet damaged | 3 | 17 |