[Report 1964] / Medical Officer of Health, Ashton-in-Makerfield U.D.C.

  • Ashton-in-Makerfield (England). Urban District Council. n 78087965.
Date:
1964
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Credit: [Report 1964] / Medical Officer of Health, Ashton-in-Makerfield U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    2 Icipen tablets 1 Bread 1 Pork Pie 1 Brown bread 4 Jam 1 Margarine 1 Multivite pellets 1 Dried full cream milk 1 Ethnine Linctus 3 Blancmange powder 1 Ground rice 1 Barley 1 Gravy Browning 1 Dried peas 1 Nembutal capsules 3 Flour confectionery 4 Pork Sausage 1 Fruit curd 1 Cooking fat 1 Rice 1 Selsun suspension 1 Dramamine tablets 4 Mincemeat 2 Beef suet 1 Vegetables, dried 1 Baked beans, canned 1 Ground ginger I give below details of those samples upon which the County Analyst gave adverse reports : — Type of Sumple Result of Analysis Action taken 1 Pork sausage Contained 220 parts per mil- Vendor cautioned, lion sulphite preservative (ex- pressed as sulphur dioxide) without declaration. 1 Pork sausage 1 Pork sausage I Pork sausage 1 Rice Meat content ony 59%. Poor No action taken, in meat content. Meat content only 47%, poor Vendor cautioned in meat content. Contained re: both meat 115 parts per million sulphite content and pre- preservative expressed as sul- servative. phur dioxide) without declar- ation. Contained 275 parts per mil- Vendor cautioned, lion sulphite preservative (ex- pressed as sulphur dioxide) without declaration. Infested with mites and book Dealt with by As- lice. sistant County Public Health Officer and Public Health Inspector to Ashton-in- Makerfield U.D.C. In conclusion 1 musE express my thanks to the Chairman and mem- bers of the Sanitary and Health Committee for their co-operation during the year, to the staff of the Public Health Department for ready assistance given at all times, and to all other colleagues in the Council’s service for help and friendly co-operation. Yours faithfully, F. BURROWS, Chief Public Health Inspector.