London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

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Deptford 1936

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Deptford, Metropolitan Borough of]

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Description Quantity
Liquor cases 1634
„ casks 2
„ packages 13
Liqueurs cases 599
Maize cornflour bags 1300
Middlings 4862
Mineral waters cases 3215
Oranges 19092
Peas bags 4013
Preserves cases 1016
Rice bags 1073
Sardines cases 3911
Spirits 271
Starch flour bags 4860
Sweets cases 50
Syrup „ 88
Tinned hams ,, 403
Wine ,, 7932
,, casks 379
,, baskets 6
II. Unsound Food.
Regular supervision of all food premises and street traders is maintained,
and tradesmen are encouraged to seek the opinion of the
Inspectors as to any food considered suspect, with a view to its
surrender and destruction.
The following quantities of food were voluntarily surrendered
during the year
Meat
Bullocks (entire), 2
Bullocks' livers, 20
Bullocks' lungs, 7
Bullocks' heads and tongues, 2
Leg of Veal, 1
Pig's pluck, 1
Pigs' livers, 3
Pig's head, 1
Pig's offal, 1
Side of pork, 1
Pickled pork, 320 lbs.
Sheep's lungs, 2
Sheep (entire), 1
Leg of mutton, 1
Fish
Plaice, 1 cwt.
Whelks, 56 lbs.
Mussels, 1 cwt.
Fowl
Turkeys, 14
Chickens, 3
Tinned Food
Sild, 1016 tins
Prunes, 4 tins

The following is a statement of the sampling clone and results obtained in 1936 :—

Total.N limber Adulterated.Percentage of samples adulterated. *
Formal samples268155.6 %
Informal samples239197.9 %
Imported Food samples2913.4 %
Total536356.5 %