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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Wandsworth 1896
Report on the health and sanitary condition of the several parishes comprised in the Wandsworth District during the year 1896
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Report—Public Analyst.
against the figures of the analyst who actually worked on
an undecomposed article. Happily, however, such disagreements
have hitherto been almost an unknown
quantity in our district.
II.—Groceries. These included:—
| Coffee | 86 samples |
| Pepper | 32 „ |
| Mustard | 32 „ |
| Sugar | 11 „ |
| Cocoa | 11 „ |
| Arrowroot | 10 „ |
| Jam | 8 „ |
| Sweets | 8 „ |
| Preserved Peas | 3 ,, |
| Vinegar | 3 „ |
| Olive Oil | 3 ,, |
| Pickles | |
| Ginger | 2 „ |
| Total | 211 |
All were found to be perfectly pure, except the preserved
peas, which showed a minute trace of copper; but,
looking to its amount and to the fact that it was not
present as a soluble salt, 1 was unable to certify that
these articles were dangerous to health.
III.—Bread and Flour.
«
The entire 24 samples examined were genuine and
of good quality.
IY.—Drugs.
The 11 samples examined included laudanum, Epsom,
salt, magnesia, spirit of nitre, sal-volatile, cream of tartar
and mixtures as prescribed. All were genuine and the
mixtures were carefully dispensed.