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 Coulsdon]
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of these goods were disposed of as animal or poultry food largely
through the Ministry of Food Salvage Organisation.
FOOD AND DRUGS ACT, 1938.
SAMPLES' TAKEN DURING 1943.
ARTICLES. | ANALYSED | ADULTERATED OR DETERIORATED. | Prosecutions . | Convictions | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Formal | Informal | Total | Formal | Informal | Total | |||
Arrowroot | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | ||
Baking powder | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - |
Beer and rum | 2 | - | 2 | 1 | - | 1 | - | - |
Biscuit & cake mixtures | 4 | - | 4 | 1 | - | 1 | - | - |
Brawn & breakfast sausage | 2 | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | |
Bun powder & scone mixtures | 2 | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | |
Bread | 5 | - | 5 | - | - | - | - | - |
Butter | 4 | - | 4 | - | - | _ | - | - |
Cake | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | ||
Castor oil | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | |
Cocoa, coffee & Nescafe | - | 7 | - | - | - | - | ||
Dried apple rings | - | l | - | - | - | - | - | |
Egg: dried & substitute powder | 2 | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - |
Fish cakes, roll and paste | 5 | - | 3 | - | - | - | - | - |
Flour: self raising & soya | 2 | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - |
Friquix savoury | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - | - |
Gelatine leaf | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - | - |
Ginger beer extract | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - |
Gravy salt & powder | 2 | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - |
Ground nutmeg | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - |
Golden syrup | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - |
Haricot beans | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | |
Jam and Marmalade | 11 | - | 11 | - | - | - | - | - |
Lard | 5 | - | 5 | - | - | - | - | - |
Lemon essence | 2 | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | |
Lentils | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - |
Macaroni and Semolina | 3 | - | 3 | - | - | - | - | |
Margarine | 6 | - | 6 | 6 | - | 6 | - | - |
Meat pie | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - |
Milk | 31 | 1 | 32 | 1 | - | 1 | - | - |
Milk, condensed | 1 | -. | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - | _ |
Minced beef & mince & beans | 2 | - | 2 | - | _ | _ | ||
Mustard prepared | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | |
Oatmeal | 2 | _ | 2 | - | - | - | - | - |
Ovaltine | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | |
Pickles and sauce | 3 | - | 3 | - | - | - | - | - |
Pudding mixture | 10 | - | 10 | 1 | - | 1 | - | - |
Soupes & soup powder | 8 | - | 8 | - | - | - | - | |
Sausage meat | 6 | - | 6 | - | - | - | - | - |
Scotts M.O.F. | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - | - |
Spaghetti | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - |
Vinegar malt and spirit | 2 | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - |
Yeast spread | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | |
TOTALS | 144 | 2 | 146 | 13 | 1 | 14 | - | - |