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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

City of London 1966

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

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226 Beef Livers, 99 Beef Kidneys, 54 Beef Offals, 14 ctns. Beef Briskets,
3 Beef Tongues, 1 bag Beef Cheeks, 1 ctn. Beef Flanks, 6 ctns. Boneless
Beef, 1 ctn. Beef Shins, 1 ctn. Beef Hinds, 2,956 Lambs, 8 Lamb Livers,
10 Lamb Legs, 7 ctns. and 55 Lambs Loins, 52 Lamb Hearts, 5 Ewe parts,
2 Ewe Shoulders, 1 Ewe, 12 Wethers, 6 Wether Legs, 3 Sheep parts, 14 Sheep
Hearts, 4 Sheep Legs, 2 Sheep Shoulders, 250 Ox Livers, 63 Ox Kidneys,
15 Ox Hearts, 3 ctns. Ox Crops, 2 ctns. Ox Chucks, 1 ctn. Ox Cheeks, 20
Ox Tails, 22 Ox Flanks, 1 ctn. Boneless Mutton, 3 Mutton Legs, 3 Mutton
Shoulders, 95 Rabbits, 24 Rabbit Hinds, 2 Veal Legs, 3 ctns. Veal Trunks,
6 Pork Sides, 89 ctns. Pork Livers, 1 ctn. Cow Crops, 3 ctns. Chucks and
blades, 1 Goat Kidney, 79 bags Mixed Offal, 44 ctns. Pomfret Fish, 204
ctns. Sausages, Quantity Butter Trimmings — diseased, dock water damaged,
faecal contamination, dirty, loose-collected, iced, bloodstained, sour, stale,
bacterial contamination, oil stained, paint stained, brine stained, rodent
damaged, soft, wet and decomposed. 54 16

Table: Other Districts

Other Districts

649 bags damaged Tea and Tea Sweepings - for chemical and fertiliser manufacture466
30 chests Tea — excess stalk - for blending10
1,331 bags Flour — sea water damaged — for reconditioning8218
90 ctns. Sultanas — wet damaged — for manufacturing purposes42
5 bags Sugar — sweepings — for refining5
843'ctns. Apricot Jam — mould around lids - for reconditioning811
10 ctns. Canned Meat (unlabelled) — said to be dog food — for use as petfood samples2
55 bags Dried Fish — infested — fumigation12
12 ctns. and 6 bags Tuna Fish — inedible — for sterilisation for petfood10
69 Sheep Livers — inedible — for sterilisation for petfood119
114 drums Oleo Stearine — uncertificated — for soap manufacture2311
18 ctns. Butter — rancid and dirty - for processing8
11 ctns. Veal Legs - dirty - for sterilisation for petfood6
8 ctns. Boneless Veal — bacterial contamination - for sterilisation for petfood4
1,586 ctns. Mixed Offal — loose collected, dock water damaged — for sterilisation for petfood3212
5,989 ctns. Beef — oil tainted — for reconditioning43814
4 ctns. Beef Crops — bacterial contamination — for sterilisation for petfood1
58 ctns. Calf Lungs — inedible — for sterilisation for petfood117
122 ctns. Lamb Lungs — inedible for sterilisation for petfood411
235 ctns. Beef Lungs and Livers — inedible for sterilisation for petfood617
194 ctns. Boneless Veal — inedible — for sterilisation for petfood514
53 ctns. Beef Livers — lymph glands absent — for pharmaceutical purposes15
336 ctns. Beef Lungs — lymph glands absent — for sterilisation for petfood1517
523 ctns. Sheep and Lamb Lungs — inedible — for sterilisation for petfood169
Quantity Meat and Offal — various reasons for condemnation — for sterilisation for petfood5811
Animal Feeding
281 bags Beans — dock water damaged167
8 bags Beans — sweepings6
156 ctns. Currants — wet damaged27
11 ctns. Currants — oil stained2
278 ctns. Milk Powder — damaged and leaky bags74
77 bags Milk Powder — dock water damaged27
128 bags Rice - wet damaged512
8 bags Rice — dirty5
494 bags Flour — wet damaged3017
90 bags Flour — contaminated with carbon black512
85 bags Flour - caked and dirty56
5 bags Flour — contaminated with bird droppings6
Quantity Flour — ship's rejected stores514
8 bags Peas — sweepings9
Quantity Yellow Corn — river water damaged1500
24 ctns. Sultanas — wet stained7
7 bags Shelled Almonds — wet and mildewed3
Quantity Grain — dock water damaged2100
400 bags Wheat Germ — wet damaged296
Quantity Wheat Gluten - dock water damaged12
5 ctns. Glaxo — dock water damaged2
201 bags Groundnuts — wet damaged210