London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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 1965
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]
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| INFORMAL Portion of Bread Roll | Contained rodent hairs | Food complaint - submitted to Committee - legal proceedings instituted against the baker |
| Asprins | Salicylic acid 2½ times greater than the prescribed limit | No action taken |
| Baby Food | Contained specks of aluminium powder | Submitted to Committee - warning letter to the manufacturer |
| Portion of Apple turnover | Decomposing - inside surface covered by a growth of black mould | Food complaint - submitted to Committee - legal proceedings instituted against the manufacturer |
| Canned Salmon | Contained 3 splinters of wood, one of 3" in length, which had been canned and processed with the salmon | Letter to importer |
| Canned Pears | Contained tin to 290 parts per million | Food complaint - stocks withdrawn. |
| Steak and Kidney pie | Meat filling was sour. | Food complaint - submitted to Committee - legal proceedings instituted. |
| Butter Osborne Biscuits | Not all the fat present was butter fat - therefore description not justified | No action taken |
| Butter Thin Biscuits | do. | do. |
| Buttercake Biscuits | do. | do. |
| Bread with Foreign Body | Contained dead cockroach | Food complaint - submitted to Committee - legal proceedings instituted. |
| Bread with Foreign Body | Contained a dead housefly | Food complaint - submitted to Committee - warning letter to the manufacturers |
| Milk | Contained in milk bottle-two aluminium bottle caps | Submitted to Committee warning letter to the manufacturer |
| Milk | Contained in milkbottle -one aluminium bottle cap | do. |
| Milk | Contained three small particles of black mould | No action taken |
| Milk | Contained 0.20% free salicylic acid. B.P. limit 0.15% | No action taken |