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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
Battersea 1919
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Battersea, Metropolitan Borough of]
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Protection of the Food Supply.
Unsound Food.
The following is a tabulated return of unsound food seized
or voluntarily surrendered during 1919:—
Food.
Quantity.
Bacon
621½ lbs.
Beef
99 „
,, boneless
100 cases
,, corned
15 tins
Bloaters
5 boxes
Brussels Sprouts
252 lbs.
Butter
318 „
Cherries
3 ½-sieves
Cod
2 cases
Cod's Roe
2 boxes
Dates
48 „ (about 1½ tons)
Eggs
1715
Figs
1 box
Herrings
1 „
Jam
446½ lbs.
Kippers
34 boxes
Mackerel
9 „
Margarine
52 lbs.
Mutton, &c.
3 lambs
2 fore quarters do.
52 lbs. lamb
28¾ lbs. mutton
Oats
1 sack
Oxtails
2 boxes
Pig
1
Pig's Liver
89 lbs.
Plums
3 tons 9 cwts. 3 qrs.
Rabbits
362
276 lbs.
Salmon
2 cwts. 3 qrs. 2 lbs.
Sheeps' Hearts
1 bag
Tangerines
74 cases
Tomatoes
39 boxes
48 lbs.
Whiting
1 case
Winkles
1 bushel
2 bags