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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
Hackney 1956
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]
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The following is a Summary of the work carried out under the Food
and Drugs Act, 1955:-
Inspections
Registered Pood Premises 2,462
Other Pood Premises 1,727
Stalls 762
Markets 1,288
Pood 415
Dairies and Milk Distributors' Premises 547
Investigations
Pood complaints 26
Pood Poisoning cases 32
Sampling
Formal samples 403
Graded Milks 609
Ice Cream (for bacteriological examination) 66
Informal samples 302
Notices Served
All types of Pood Premises 250