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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
Bromley 1933
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bromley]
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54
Potatoes 728 „
Sausages 8 ,,
Cooked meats 31 ,,
Rabbits 12 ,,
Tinned Goods. Quantity
Vegetables 127 tins
Fruit 1588 ,,
Fish 139 ,,
Milk 285 „
Meat 41 ,,
Miscellaneous 55 ,,
Approx. 1676 ,,
*Leakage of sulphur dioxide from defective refrigerator plant.
Food and Drugs (Adulteration) Act, 1928.
The following tabulation gives particulars of the work of the Food and Drugs Inspector in Bromley during 1933:—
| New milk | 75 | Mustard | 2 |
| Sterilised milk | 2 | Mixed pickles | 1 |
| Apricots | 1 | Tapioca | 1 |
| Dem. Sugar | 3 | Raspberry jam | 1 |
| Coffee | 6 | Gin | 1 |
| Baking powder | 1 | Ammon. Tincture | |
| Cocoa | 5 | Quinine | 1 |
| Rice | 5 | Iodine | 1 |
| Margarine | 4 | Olive oil | |
| Custard powder | 1 | Corned beef | 1 |
| Brawn | 1 | Viota | 1 |
| Pepper | 4 | Fruit salad | 2 |
| Lard | 5 | G. Cinnamon | 1 |
| Butter | 6 | Semolina | 1 |
| Sausages | 4 | Flour | 3 |
| S. Whiskey | 2 | Cornflour | 1 |
| S.R. Flour | 1 | Cakeoma | 1 |
| Condensed milk | 1 |
No. of samples 148
Genuine 147
Adulterated 1
Inferior Nil
The adulterated sample was new milk. Tbe offender
was prosecuted and convicted and fined £3 and £2 2s. Oncosts,