Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Annual report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Deptford
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Articles. | Number Genuine. | Number Adulterated. | Total. | Percentage of Adulteration. |
---|---|---|---|---|
Almonds, ground | 2 | .. | 2 | .. |
Apple | 2 | .. | 2 | .. |
Baking Powder | 1 | .. | 1 | .. |
Barley, Pearl | 2 | .. | 2 | .. |
Beers— Ale | 2 | .. | 2 | .... |
Bitter | 2 | .. | 2 | .. |
Burton | 2 | .. | 2 | .. |
Stout | 2 | .. | 2 | .. |
Boric Ointment | 5 | .. | 5 | .. |
Butter | 88 | .. | 38 | .. |
Cake, Sponge | 7 | .. | 7 | |
Camphorated Oil | 5 | .. | 5 | .. |
Castor Oil | 2 | .. | 2 | .. |
Cheese | 4 | .. | 4 | .. |
Cinnamon | 2 | .... | 2 | .. |
Cocoa | 26 | .. | 26 | .. |
Coffee | 17 | .. | 17 | .. |
Coffee and Chicory | 4 | 1 | 5 | 29 |
Cream | 5 | .. | 5 | .. |
„ preserved | 13 | .. | 13 | .. |
Custard Powder | 5 | .. | 5 | |
Dripping | 8 | .. | 8 | .. |
Epsom Salts | 2 | .. | 2 | .. |
Egg Substitute Powder | 6 | .. | 6 | .. |
Fish, tinned | 4 | .. | 4 | .. |
Flour | 4 | .. | 4 | .. |
Ginger, Ground | 5 | .. | 5 | .. |
Glycerine | 2 | .. | 2 | .. |
Herrings in Tomato Sauce.. | 1 | .. | 1 | .. |
Lard | 12 | .. | 12 | |
Lemon Squash | 4 | .. | 4 | .. |
Lime Water | 3 | 1 | 4 | 25 |
Margarine | 9 | .. | 9 | .. |
Milk | 226 | .. | 227 | 04 |
„ dried, full cream | 11 | .. | 11 | .. |
„ „ „ „ sweetened | 5 | .. | 5 | .. |
„ „ „ „ modified | 3 | .. | 3 | .. |
„ condensed, machine skimmed, sweetened | 2 | .. | 2 | .. |
„ separated | 1 | .. | 1 | .. |
Mustard | 11 | .. | 11 | .. |
„ compound | 4 | .. | 4 | .. |
Pepper | 10 | .. | 10 | .. |
Carried forward | 481 | 3 | 484 | .. |