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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
Hornsey 1955
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hornsey, Borough of]
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FOOD SAMPLING
I am indebted to Mr. J. A. O' Keefe, Chief Officer of Public Control
of the Middlesex County Council for the following information.
Food and Drugs Act, 1938
Samples procured in the Borough of Hornsey during the year 1955.
| Articles | Total samples procured | Unsatisfactory |
|---|---|---|
| Milk, various | 123 | . |
| Biscuits | 1 | . |
| Butter | 8 | . |
| Cakes | 38 | . |
| Cheese | 17 | 11 |
| Chestnut spread | 1 | . |
| Coffee | 1 | . |
| Cooked Meats | 13 | . |
| Cream | 3 | . |
| Desiccated Coconut | 1 | . |
| Drugs | 19 | . |
| Fish | 5 | . |
| Fish Cake | 1 | . |
| Flavoured Milk | 2 | . |
| Fruit cocktail | 1 | . |
| Fruit drink | 1 | . |
| Fruit Juice | 2 | . |
| Golden Syrup | 1 | . |
| Ground Almonds | 1 | . |
| Ice Cream | 6 | . |
| Iced Lollies | 5 | . |
| Jelly | 2 | 1 |
| Liver | 14 | . |
| Margarine | 1 | . |
| Marzipan | 1 | 1 |
| Meat | 2 | . |
| Meat Paste | 1 | . |
| Meat Pie | 1 | . |
| Minced Meat | 4 | . |
| Non-brewed Condiment | 1 | . |
| Olive Oil | 1 | . |
| Pepper | 2 | . |
| Peaches | 1 | . |
| Preserves | 2 | . |
| Rum Butter | 1 | . |
| Sausages | 19 | . |
| Self-raising Flour | 2 | . |
| Suet | 1 | . |
| Sweets | 12 | 2 |
| Victoria Plums | 4 | . |
| Vinegar | 24 | 2 |
| Wines and Spirits | 14 | . |
| Totals | 360 | 17 |