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

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City of London 1969

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

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10 Cartons Soutzoukko — Mouldy3
8 Baskets Calabashs — Wasty2
12 Bags Flour — Faecal contamination15
18 Bags Sugar — Sweepings13
6 Cartons Curry Mix — Uncertificated2
9 Cartons Eggs — Broken and crushed1
7 Cartons Egg Albumen — Extraneous contamination3
1 Case Mixed Foodstuff — Damaged and contaminated1
7 Cartons Dairy Produce — Oil stained, dock water and rodent damaged2
16 Pieces of Beef — Rejected Ship stores3
Buried 24,707 tins, 3694 cartons, 1620 Jars of fruit, fish, meat, vegetables, pulps and juices — burst blown, leaking and broken1053
150 Cartons Frosting Mix — Contained prohibited colouring matter16
53 Bags. 61 Cartons. 15 packets Rice — Loose collected, sweepings, dirty, wet damaged and contaminated with bird droppings and refuse water22
60 Cartons, 9 Packets Macaroni Products — Flood damaged and oil contaminated14
16 Cartons Spaghetti — Damaged and infested4
4 Bags Maize Sweepings — Extraneous contamination5
86 Cartons and 13 Boxes Cheddar Cheese — Heat and dock water
damaged24
5 Bags Flour — Bilge water damaged3
1 Bag Gram Dall — Rodent damaged and contaminated1
6 Bags Desiccated Coconut — Burst and rodent contaminated4
24 Bags and Quantity of Shelled Almonds — Dirty, sweepings18
17 Cases Walnut Kernels — Smashed and contaminated9
35 Cartons, 2 Bags Prunes — Mouldy, contaminated, loose
collected, sweepings11
1 Cask Raspberries, 1 Cask Cranberries — Burst, damaged and contaminated4
6 Cartons Honey — Rodent damaged and contaminated1
5 Baskets Ginger in Syrup — Contaminated5
24 Boxes Dates — Damaged, extraneous contamination12
24 Boxes Sultanas — Oil contaminated and wet stained5
450 Cartons Fruit Salad — Blown312
1245 Cases, 300 Boxes, 793 Crates and Quantity Melons - Loose collected, wasty and damaged3314
Quantity of Banana Waste — Wasty4618
22 Cartons and 2 Containers Apples — Crushed and wasty112
35 3arrels and 1 Cask Orange juice — Dock water damaged & unfit40
1 Drum Lemon juice — Dirt contaminated2
5 Casks Raspberry Pulp and Apricot pulp — Sour and mouldy or contaminated15
1 Hogshead Bitter Orange Pulp — Extraneous contamination4
6 Cartons Dried Apricots — Wet stained1
28 Cartons Oranges — Crushed9
4 Cartons Chochos — Wet and wasty2
2 Bags Marjoram — Dock water damaged1
7 Bags Anardana (Pomegranate seeds) — Insect infested10
287 Baskets Tomatoes — Wasty21
14 Barrels, 3 casks Pickles, Chutney and Mango Chutney — Burst and contaminated15
1 Barrel Onions in Brine — Broken, Brine leaked away2
329 Cases, 11 Cartons, 1039 Bags and quantity of onions — Diesel oil stained, wet, sprouting, crushed, loose collected and decomposing249
12 Bags new, 42 Cases sweet, 203 Bags potatoes and 400 bundles ready cooked potatoes — Wasty and unsound1617
2 Fibre bags dehydrated Potato — Broken, contents contaminated10
12 Bags and quantity of Lentils - Loose collected badly stained and contaminated19
269 Bags Peas, Beans and Seeds — Loose collected, sweepings, wet and mouldy, dirty and contaminated1118
11 Part Bags Lima Beans — Contaminated hold sweepings11