Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report on the sanitary condition of the Borough of Bermondsey for the year 1919
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TABLE IX—FOOD AND DRUGS.
Articles submitted for Analysis. | Total Samples Taken. | Number Genuine | Number Adulterated. | Percentages of Articles Adulterated. |
---|---|---|---|---|
Arrowroot | 2 | 2 | – | – |
Apricot Palp | 1 | 1 | – | |
Butter | 188 | 179 | 9 | 4.7 |
Bun Flour | 1 | 1 | – | – |
Barley | 1 | 1 | – | – |
British Wine | 1 | 1 | – | – |
Baking Powder | 2 | 2 | – | – |
Breakfast Sausage | 1 | 1 | – | – |
Cocoa | 47 | 45 | 2 | 4.2 |
Coffee | 17 | 17 | 2 | – |
French Coffee | 2 | 2 | – | – |
Custard Powder | 5 | 5 | – | – |
Citrate of Magnesia | 1 | 1 | – | – |
Castora Tablets | 1 | 1 | – | – |
Corn Flour | 4 | 4 | – | – |
Cod Liver Oil | 1 | – | 1 | 100.0 |
Camphorated Oil | 1 | 1 | – | – |
Cocoanut (desiccated) | 1 | – | 1 | 100.0 |
Cooking Fat | 1 | 1 | – | – |
Cider | 1 | 1 | – | – |
Carraway Seeds | 1 | 1 | – | – |
Dripping | 27 | 22 | 5 | 18.5 |
Epsom Salts | 1 | 1 | – | – |
Eggs (Dried) | 2 | 2 | – | – |
Egg Substitute | 4 | 4 | – | – |
Flour (Self-raising) | 27 | 22 | 5 | 18.5 |
Frying Fat | 1 | 1 | – | – |
Government Ale | 1 | 1 | – | – |
Ginger Wine | 3 | 3 | – | – |
Glauber Salts | 1 | 1 | – | – |
Jam | 4 | 4 | – | – |
Lard | 45 | 45 | – | – |
Lemegg | 1 | 1 | – | – |
Lame Juice Cordial | 5 | 5 | – | – |
Lemon Curd | 1 | 1 | – | – |
Lemon Squash | 4 | 4 | – | – |
Lemonade Powder | 1 | 1 | – | – |
Liquorice Powder | 2 | 2 | – | – |
Lung Syrup | 1 | 1 | – | – |
Milk | 495 | 453 | 42 | 8 4 |
Mustard | 14 | 14 | – | – |
Mandioca | 1 | 1 | – | – |
Margarine | 106 | 106 | – | – |
Milk (Separated) | 3 | 3 | – | – |
Olive Oil | 2 | 2 | – | – |
Orange Quinine Wine | 1 | 1 | – | – |
Pepper | 28 | 28 | – | – |
Pearl Barley | 1 | 1 | – | – |
Peppermint Liqueur | 1 | 1 | – | – |
Powdered Boracic Acid | 1 | – | 1 | 100.0 |
Rice | 15 | 15 | – | – |
Baspberry Vinegar | 1 | 1 | – | – |
Suet (Shredded) | 8 | 3 | 5 | 62.5 |
Sauce | 1 | 1 | – | – |