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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
Wembley 1956
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wembley]
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Food and Drags Act, 1938.
The Middlesex County Council are the Authority for the administration of this Act, and the Chief Officer of the Public Control Department has supplied the following particulars of sampling in Wembley during 1956:—
| Article. | No. taken. | Unsatisfactory. |
|---|---|---|
| Milk, various | 80 | 2 |
| Milk, new | 80 | 17 |
| Arrowroot | 4 | — |
| Butter | 30 | — |
| Cakes | 12 | 1 |
| Cooked Meats | 21 | — |
| Cream | 33 | — |
| Drugs | 34 | — |
| Fish | 18 | 1 |
| Fish products | 11 | — |
| Fruit Squash | 7 | — |
| Ground Almonds | 3 | — |
| Ice Cream | 22 | — |
| Marzipan | 2 | — |
| Margarine | 19 | — |
| Meat | 28 | — |
| Meat products | 16 | — |
| Miscellaneous | 9 | — |
| Pepper | 2 | — |
| Preserves | 5 | — |
| Sausages, etc. | 10 | — |
| Sweets | 8 | — |
| Tomato Juice | 2 | — |
| Vinegar | 19 | 2 |
| Wines and Spirits | 15 | — |
| 490 | 23 |