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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 1960

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hornsey, Borough of]

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FOOD SAMPLING
I am indebted to J. A. O'Keefe, Esq., O. B.E., Chief Officer of Public
Control of the Middlesex County Council, for the following information.

Table: Food and Drugs Act, 1955 Samples procured in the Borough of Hornsey during the year 1960 -

Food and Drugs Act, 1955 Samples procured in the Borough of Hornsey during the year 1960 -

ArticleTotal samples procuredUnsatisfactory
Milk (Various)78
Butter and margarine12
Cakes12
Cheese172
Cooked meat21
Cream10
Drugs13
Fish and fish products291
Fruit - fresh and canned, etc.192
Ice-cream6
Meat, meat products and liver372
Sauce6
Sausages, etc.11
Sweets3
Vinegar35
Miscellaneous21
Totals3307

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The following comments relate to samples noted as unsatisfactory:
Cheese
Two samples of cream cheese were procured and upon analysis they
proved to be processed cheese. The samples were taken from a large
multiple store and it was felt that the cheese had been inadvertently misdescribed
by an assistant in the shop and an official caution was issued.
Fish
An official caution was issued to a fishmonger within the Borough for
describing and selling red fish as sea bream.
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