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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
Willesden 1951
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Willesden]
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TABLE IV
List of Samples Taken During 1951
| Article: | No. of samples | Unsatisfactory |
|---|---|---|
| Milk | 386 | 6 |
| Almonds | 1 | — |
| Bap (Scotch bread) | 2 | 2 |
| Beef | 1 | — |
| Biscuits | 2 | — |
| Bovril | 1 | 1 |
| Bread and butter | 4 | 1 |
| Butter snips | 1 | — |
| Cake | 6 | 1 |
| Cheese | 1 | — |
| Claret | 1 | — |
| Cod liver oil | 1 | — |
| Coffee and Chicory Essence | 1 | — |
| Condensed and Evaporated Milk | 3 | — |
| Cough mixture | 2 | 1 |
| Cream | 3 | — |
| Cooked meat | 14 | — |
| Fish | 23 | 3 |
| Fish cake | 1 | — |
| Flour | 2 | — |
| Gherkin | 1 | — |
| Ginger wine | 1 | — |
| Glauber salt | 1 | — |
| Ham | 1 | 1 |
| Honey wheat crunch | 1 | — |
| Ice cream | 3 | — |
| Jelly | 1 | — |
| Lemon Squash | 1 | — |
| Marmalade | 2 | — |
| Meat paste | 1 | — |
| Meat pie | 8 | — |
| Peaches (frozen) | 1 | — |
| Orange juice and syrup | 2 | — |
| Quinine | 1 | — |
| Raspberry syrup | 1 | — |
| Rice cake mixture | 1 | — |
| Rhum raisin praline | 1 | — |
| Saccharin tablets | 1 | — |
| Sal volatile | 1 | — |
| Salad cream | 1 | — |
| Sausages | 42 | — |
| Sausage meat and rolls | 10 | — |
| Sherbet | 1 | — |
| Sherry | 1 | — |
| Sulphur tablets | 2 | — |
| Tomato ketchup | 2 | 1 |
| Twilight rolls | 1 | — |
| Vinegar | 1 | _ |
| Whisky | 9 | _ |
| Zinc ointment | 2 | - |
| Curry powder | 1 | - |
| Total ............ | 559 | 17 |