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 Deptford Borough]
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Table V (Continued)
Number Examined | Number Adulterated | |||||
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Formal | Informal | Total | Formal | Informal | Total | |
Fish Cakes | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | — |
Flour (2 plain, 5 self-raising) | — | 7 | 7 | — | — | — |
Fruit, Pears | — | 5 | 5 | — | — | — |
Fruit, Dried Figs | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | — |
Gelatine | — | 2 | 2 | — | — | — |
Ginger (Ground) | — | 2 | 2 | — | — | — |
Glycerine | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | — |
Gravy Preparations | — | 4 | 4 | — | — | — |
Herbs (Dried) (3 mixed, 1 mint, 1 sage) | — | 5 | 5 | — | — | — |
Honey | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | — |
Ice Cream | — | 12 | 12 | — | — | — |
Iodine, Tincture of | — | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 |
Jam (3 apricot, 1 blackcurrant, 1 cherry 1 gooseberry, 6 greengage, 1 Guava jelly, 1 red plum, 1 raspberry, 1 strawberry) | — | 16 | 16 | — | 3 | 3 |
Jelly | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | — |
Junket Preparation | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | — |
Lemonade Powders | — | 5 | 5 | — | 1 | 1 |
Macaroni | — | 2 | 2 | — | — | — |
Margarine | — | 9 | 9 | — | — | — |
Meat (Beaver) | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | — |
Meat Products | — | 4 | 4 | — | — | — |
Meat (Canned) | — | 3 | 3 | — | — | — |
Meat Pies | — | 16 | 16 | — | — | — |
Meat Paste | — | 3 | 3 | — | — | — |
Meat and Yeast Extracts | — | 3 | 3 | — | — | — |
Milk | 101 | 27 | 128 | — | — | — |
Milk, Evaporated | — | 2 | 2 | — | — | — |
Mussels (Canned) | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | — |
Mustard (including prepared 2) | — | 6 | 6 | — | — | — |
Pastry Mix | — | 2 | 2 | — | — | — |
Pectin | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | — |
Peel (Dried) | — | 4 | 4 | — | — | — |
Pepper | — | 8 | 8 | — | — | — |
Pickles (1 sweet, 2 mixed, 1 piccalilli) | — | 4 | 4 | — | — | — |
Potato Crisps | — | 5 | 5 | — | — | — |
Quinine, Ammoniated Tincture | — | 3 | 3 | — | 1 | 1 |
Sago | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | — |
Salt | — | 7 | 7 | — | — | — |
Salad Cream and Mayonnaise | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Sal Volatile | — | 3 | 3 | — | — | — |
Sandwich Spread | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | — |
Sauces (including 3 tomato ketchup) | — | 5 | 5 | — | 1 | |
Sausages | — | 2 | 2 | — | — | — |
Sausages (Cooked) (2 breakfast, 1 liver, 1 salami) | — | 4 | 4 | — | — | — |
Sausage Rolls | — | 2 | 2 | — | — | — |
Semolina | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | — |
Senna Pods | — | 3 | 3 | — | — | — |
Sherbert Powder | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | — |
Soda, Bicarbonate of | — | 4 | 4 | — | — | — |
Soup (Canned) | — | 2 | 2 | — | — | — |
Soup (Powder) | — | 6 | 6 | — | — | — |
Soya, Flour | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | — |
Spices (1 nutmeg, 7 mixed, 1 cloves) | — | 9 | 9 | — | — | — |
Stuffing Mixtures | — | 3 | 3 | — | — | — |
Sugar | — | 9 | 9 | — | — | — |
Sulphur Ointment | — | 4 | 4 | — | 2 | 2 |
Tea | — | 9 | 9 | — | — | — |
Tomato Spread | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | — |
Turmeric (Powdered) | — | 3 | 3 | — | — | — |
Vegetables (Dried) (1 mixed, 1 peas, 2 potato) | — | 4 | 4 | — | — | — |
Vinegar (3 malt, 1 non-brewed) | — | 4 | 4 | — | — | — |
Wines (1 ginger, 1 port-type) | — | 3 | 3 | — | — | — |
Zinc and Castor Oil Cream | — | 4 | 4 | — | — | — |
Totals | 104 | 427 | 531 | 2 | 14 | 16 |