Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Battersea Borough]
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TABLE III. Other Articles.
Nature of Sample. | Examined. | Adulterated. | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Formal. | Informal. | Total. | Formal. | Informal. | Total. | |
Almonds, ground | — | 4 | 4 | — | 0 | 0 |
Cakes, sponge | — | 12 | 12 | — | 0 | 0 |
Cornflour | — | 4 | 4 | — | 0 | 0 |
Cream sandwich | 2 | 8 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 6 |
Custard powder | — | 16 | 16 | — | 0 | 0 |
Dripping | — | 11 | 11 | — | 0 | 0 |
Fish, bottled | — | 1 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 |
„ canned | — | 10 | 10 | — | 0 | 0 |
,, paste | — | 3 | 3 | — | 0 | 0 |
Fruits, dried | — | 15 | 15 | — | 0 | 0 |
Ginger, ground | — | 4 | 4 | — | 0 | 0 |
Jelly, table | — | 6 | 6 | — | 0 | 0 |
Junket preparations | — | 4 | 4 | — | 0 | 0 |
Lard substitute | — | 3 | 3 | — | 0 | 0 |
Lemonade powder ... | — | 4 | 4 | — | 2 | 2 |
Meat, minced | — | 3 | 3 | — | 0 | 0 |
„ paste | — | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
Oatmeal | — | 1 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 |
Olive Oil | — | 8 | 8 | — | 0 | 0 |
Peel, Candied | — | 8 | 8 | — | 0 | 0 |
Pepper | — | 4 | 4 | — | 0 | 0 |
Rice | — | 18 | 18 | — | 0 | 0 |
Sago | — | 1 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 |
Sausages | — | 4 | 4 | — | 0 | 0 |
,, breakfast ... | — | 4 | 4 | — | 0 | 0 |
Spice, Mixed | — | 4 | 4 | — | 0 | 0 |
Sponge mixture | — | 4 | 4 | — | 0 | 0 |
Suet, shredded | — | 4 | 4 | — | 0 | 0 |
Tapioca | — | 6 | 6 | — | 0 | 0 |
Wines, non-alcoholic | — | 3 | 3 | — | 0 | 0 |
Total | 2 | 178 | 180 | 2 | 6 | 8 |
Milk.
Of the 738 samples of milk (all formal) submitted during the
year, 6 or 0.8 per cent. were reported as adulterated, 4 of these
samples being deficient in milk fat and 2 containing extraneous
water. The percentages of extraneous water found in the 2
adulterated samples were 2 and 7 respectively, whilst the deficiency
in milk fat in the 4 samples so reported against ranged from
4 to 15 per cent.
In the 5 years 1930-34, and in 1935, the percentage of adulterated
(formal) samples of milk was as under:—