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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
West Ham 1900
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for West Ham]
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Unsound Food.
Seized—
Oranges, 22 lbs.
„ 8 lbs.
Apples, 7 lbs.
Meat, 8 lbs.
Tinned Food, 147 tins.
Potatoes, 2 cwt. 2 qrs. 2 lbs.
Plums, 14 lbs.
Pears, 8 lbs.
Damsons, 58 lbs.
Rabbits, 8.
„ 8.
Condemned without Seizure—
Greens, 2 bags.
Kippered Herrings, 24 boxes.
Whelks, half-bushel.
Shrimps, 23 lbs.
Calves' Heads, 47.
Meat, 8 lbs.
Spare Rib Bones, 4½ cwts.
Cherries, 2½ cwts.
„ 28 lbs.
Haddocks, 8 turns.
Plums, 96 lbs.
Black Currants, 14 baskets.
Apples, 1 cwt.
Rabbit, 1
Summonses Attended—
Sale of Food and Drugs Acts 124
Public Health Acts 88
Shop Hours Acts 24