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 Haringey]
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On every home match, however, a few unregistered traders appear in the vicinity of the ground
and the Department is endeavouring with the co-operation of the Police either to discourage their
presence or secure compliance with the Act and Regulations.
Food and Drugs Act
This work continued during the year in a remarkably smooth and efficient manner due in no small
degree to the personal qualities of the Council's Public Analyst, Mr. W.B. Chapman, and his Deputy,
Mr. Burden. Their never failing courtesy and willingness to advise on all matters, important and
trivial, is a model of demeanour which one would like to emulate. This co-operation has resulted in
the Borough obtaining a service upon which it would be difficult to improve. Several visits were
made to food manufacturing premises during the year by members of the Section accompanied by the
Council's Deputy Public Analyst and samples of raw materials as well as finished products were
obtained. In all cases the manufacturers welcomed the visits and the opportunity to discuss
informally their problems with the Council's Deputy Public Analyst. Samples were freely offered
and in no case has any material or product failed to comply with the standards laid down for such
materials.
FOOD SAMPLES
Articles | No. of samples provided | Unsatisfactory | |
---|---|---|---|
Analysis | Labelling | ||
Alcoholic beverages | 13 | - | 1 |
Biscuits | 2 | — | 1 |
Bread | 13 | 3 | — |
Butter | 2 | — | 1 |
Cake Confectionery | 1 | — | — |
Cake mixtures | 1 | — | — |
Cereal products | 4 | — | — |
Cheese and cheese preparations | 33 | — | 5 |
Chocolate preparation | 1 | 1 | — |
Colourings | 2 | — | — |
Drugs | 58 | 1 | — |
Eggs | 2 | — | — |
Fish and fish preparations | 42 | 2 | — |
Flavourings | 2 | — | — |
Flour | 1 | — | — |
Food additives | 5 | _ | _ |
Frozen confectionery (excluding ice cream) | 1 | — | — |
Fruit and fruit preparation | 22 | — | 1 |
Honey | 1 | — | — |
Ice Cream | 2 | 3 | — |
Jam preserves | 21 | 1 | — |
Meals | 33 | — | — |
Meat and meat preparations | 60 | 5 | — |
Milk | 158 | 5 | — |
Milk, condensed | 5 | — | _ |
Milk, preparations | 3 | — | — |
Nuts and nut preparations | 3 | — | — |
Oil and fats | 5 | — | — |
Pickles | 2 | — | _ |
Sausages | 30 | 1 | 4 |
Soft drinks | 34 | 2 | — |
Soup | 4 | — | 1 |
Spices | 6 | — | — |
Spirits | 1 | _ | _ |
Sugar | 1 | — | — |
Sugar confectionery | 2 | — | _ |
Sweeteners | 4 | — | — |
Syrup | 2 | — | — |
Table jelly preparations | 8 | 1 | — |
Tea | 2 | 1 | — |
Vegetables and vegetable preparations | 17 | 1 | — |
Total | 609 | 27 | 15 |