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[Report 1960] / Medical Officer of Health, Northampton County Borough.

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Publication/creation
1960
Contributors
Northampton (England). County Borough Council.
Type/technique
Electronic books
Annual reports
MOH reports
Subjects
Disease Outbreaks
Public Health
Sanitation
Water Supply
Northampton (England)
Attribution and usage
Wellcome Collection
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Inspection and Supervision of Food (<continued) Table 8. Northampton C.B., 1960. Unsound Food Voluntarily Surrendered. NATURE OF FOOD WEI GHT TONS CWT. QR. LB, Beef, home killed... 13 3 5 8 2 1 1 15 10 24 17 19 20 1 22 9 20 20 11 11 12 12 20 8 Beef, imported . Mutton, home killed . Mutton, imported .. Offal, home killed . 32 8 3 2 2 Offal, imported . Pork, home killed .... 2 8 Pork, imported ... Veal, home killed .. 2 7 9 0 3 0 3 1 Bacon...... .. Fish, wet .... Ham ..... Poultry and game .... 4 Sausages ....... Vegetables ..... 6 2 3 1 Eggs, frozen .... Cheese ... . Total ..... 50 8 0 27 9,154 tins and jars of food were also surrendered. 3,338 surrender notes were issued in connection with the above unsound food. There was also one seizure (see below). 1 sample of cooked meat product was submitted for bacteriological examination. Seizure of Unsound Food. A bovine liver, 3 whole sheep livers and one part of a sheep liver, all diseased, total weight 5 lb. 14 oz. were seized at a butcher’s shop in Northampton. The livers had been purchased at a market in a nearby district, and were eventually handed over to the Chief Public Health Inspector of that district. There were no other seizures, but 3,338 surrender notes were issued —1,372 for meat, etc., from slaughterhouses and 1,966 for tins, etc., of food (see Table 8 above). Slaughterhouses. There were eight slaughterhouses on the register, viz:— Cattlemarket 14 Military Road 1a Oliver Street Ransome Road 8 Regent Square St. Andrew’s Hospital 38 Sandhill Road 64 Wellington Street All are in regular use.