[Report 1967] / Medical Officer of Health, Prestwich Borough.

  • Prestwich (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1967
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Credit: [Report 1967] / Medical Officer of Health, Prestwich Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1 raw potato 1 cooked potato 1 anchovy paste 2 semolina 1 gravy browning 1 olive oil 1 mustard paste 1 concentrated orange squash 1 canned corned beef 2 ice cream 6 bread 1 canned sausage 1 plain flour 2 dried fruit 2 flour confectionery 2 blancmange powder 1 sweets 1 margarine 1 cooked sausage 2 fish cakes 2 pork sausage 1 biscuit 1 omelette mix 1 rice 1 vegetable seasoning 1 fruit curd 1 chutney 1 coffee flavouring 2 stout 1 liver sausage 2 cooked meat 1 Christmas pudding 1 stuffing 1 dripping 1 British sherry 1 butter These samples were analysed by the County Analyst and the following list gives details of samples which were found to be adulterated or which otherwise gave rise to some irregularity. Sample Formal milk Cooked potatoes Result of analysis Fat 2.95$• Deficient 1.6$ fat. Action taken Producer notified. The potatoes were alkaline in Complainant reaction and contained carbonate informed, equivalent to 1.2$ ammonium carbonate. Bread Contained 15 torn fragments of coarse paper and 4 fragments of cotton thread weighing in all 0.54 gramme. Prosecution - fined £15, costs £7.17s. Cooked sausage and a separate foreign object Informal milk Bread Bread Formal milk Stout Pork sausage Contained a badly damaged steel Prosecution — fined countersunk wood screw 24*4 £20, costs £8.5s. millimetres long and weighing 1.35 grammes Complainant informed and dairy communi¬ cated with Prosecution - fined £25, costs £8.6s.10d. Bakery cautioned and complainant informed Contained a torn piece of bitumised felt measuring 53 x 41 x 1*5 millimetres and weighing 1.26 grammes Contained a dead fly approx. 8 millimetres long and weighing 6 milligrams Consisted of 26.9 grammes of breadcrumbs stained by 245 milligrams of mineral oil, 6.2 milligrams of iron (expressed as Fe)and a small amount of carbon Contained 0.3 International Unit penicillin per ml. Both bottles contained approx. deep layer of sediment con¬ sisting almost entirely of live brewers yeast ceils Lean meat 29»5$ instead of Vendor interviewed recommended 324$. Also contained 75 pts.per million sulphite preservative(expressed as sulphur dioxide)without declaration Prosecution - fined £25, costs £3» Complainant informed -21-