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Southwark 1929
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, Borough of]
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Table showing the quantity of Foodstuffs examined at the wharves during the year 1929, the quantity found to be unsound, the notices served
and the method of disposal of the unsound portion.
| Foodstuffs. | Quantity and Weight examined. | Weight found to be unsound. | Surrendered by Owner. | Seized by Inspector. | Notices served. | How unsound portion disposed of. | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quantity. | Weight. | (a) Detention. | (b) Release | |||||||||||
| T. | c. | Q- | L. | T. | c. | Q- | L. | |||||||
| Asparagus, tinned | 691 cases | 14 | 13 | 0 | 20 | - | 2 | 2 | 8 | Yes | - | — | - | Destroyed at the Council's Depot. |
| Apricots, tinned | 1,140 cases | 30 | 13 | 1 | 18 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 24 | Yes | - | 7 | - | Destroyed at the Council's Depot. |
| Apples, tinned | 830 cases | 13 | 15 | 0 | 26 | - | — | - | — | - | — | |||
| Apples, dried | 76 cases, 30 bags | 2 | 1 | 1 | 20 | - | — | - | — | - | — | |||
| Apricot pulp | 30 cases, 94 tins | 1 | 18 | 2 | 22 | - | 2 | 1 | 23 | Yes | - | 1 | - | Destroyed at the Council's Depot. |
| Apricots, dried | 155 boxes | 2 | 10 | 2 | 20 | - | — | - | — | - | — | |||
| Apricots | 2,129 crates | 22 | 16 | 0 | 8 | - | 6 | 0 | 20 | Yes | - | — | - | Destroyed on premises where found. |
| Apples | 85 boxes | 1 | 12 | 1 | 8 | - | — | - | — | - | — | |||
| Beef | Bags, pieces, &c. | 362 | 11 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | Yes | - | 6 | 2 | 3 tons 6 cwt. 1 qr. 17 lbs. were released for technical purposes and 14 cwt. 11 lbs. were released for soap boiling. |
| Beef, tinned | 2,511 cases. 8,182 tins | 83 | 15 | 2 | 22 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 2 | Yes | - | 10 | 1 | 1 ton 14 cwt 3 qrs. 9 lbs. were released for fa melting, 1 ton 6 cwt. 2 qrs. 14 lbs. for soap boiling, 6 cwt. 1 qrs. 20 lbs. for animal food and the remainder was destroyed at the Coun cil's Depot. |
| Bacon | 1,552 bales, 37 boxes, &c. | 200 | 13 | 0 | 0 | — | - | - | - | - | — | |||
| Butter | 257 boxes, 126 barrels | 12 | 14 | 2 | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | — | |||
| Beef, salted | 46 barrels | 4 | 3 | 0 | 24 | - | - | - | - | - | — | |||
| Blackcurrant pulp | 255 cases | 6 | 12 | 2 | 12 | - | - | - | - | - | — | |||
| Beans, tinned | 115 cases | 2 | 9 | 1 | 24 | - | - | - | - | - | — | |||
| Blackcurrants | 219 billots | 2 | 6 | 2 | 12 | - | 3 | 3 | 0 | Yes | - | - | - | Destroyed on premises where found. |
| Condensed milk | 4,358 cases | 65 | 9 | 2 | 7 | 24 | 1 | 3 | 20 | Yes | - | 12 | - | 18 tons 10 cwt. were released for cattle and pig feeding, the remainder was destroyed at the Council's Depot. |
| Cherries, tinned | 465 cases | 12 | 1 | 1 | 16 | - | 8 | 2 | 8 | Yes | - | 3 | - | Destroyed on premises where found. |
| Crab, tinned | 501 cases | 10 | 14 | 0 | 26 | - | - | - | - | - | — | |||
| Currants | 189 boxes | 2 | 12 | o | 8 | - | - | - | - | - | — | |||
| Cheese | 185 crates, 259 boxes | 13 | 5 | 0 | 21 | - | 5 | 2 | 21 | - | - | 1 | - | Destroyed at the Council's Depot. |
| Cherries | 812 billots | 8 | 13 | 1 | 20 | - | 2 | 0 | 0 | Yes | - | - | - | Destroyed on premises where found. |
| Cranberries | 124 baskets | 6 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 0 | Yes | - | 1 | - | Destroyed at wharf. |
| Crayfish | 20 cases | - | 8 | 2 | 18 | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||
| Casings, sheep | 21 casks | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||
| Casings, Ox | 54 casks | 10 | 16 | 0 | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||
| Ducks | 1,185 boxes | 21 | 19 | 3 | 11 | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||
| Dates | 2,157 boxes | 39 | 2 | 1 | 12 | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | |||
| Carried forward | 958 | 16 | 1 | 16 | 49 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 41 | 6 | ||||
CASEOUS LYMPHADENITIS.
A large number of imported carcases of mutton are still found to infected with the above disease, which renders these carcases unfit for
food, and we have to order their destruction.
This disease was at one time considered allied to tuberculosis, but tuberclosis does not occur in sheep, and no bacilli of nature
resembling tubercle bacilli are found in the lesions, but is due to some Other organism which causes a general infection of the carcases and
renders them unfit for human consumption.
Australian and New Zealand mutton is much freer from the diseases than that imported from South America, but the total number has been
large and the loss considerable.
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