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 Bromley]
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Table Jelly | — | 2 | 2 | — |
Tomato Juice Cocktail | — | 1 | 1 | — |
Tomato Ketchup | — | 2 | 2 | — |
Tonic Water | — | 2 | 2 | — |
Vinegar (Malt) | — | 5 | 4 | 1 See (m) |
Welsh Rarebit | — | 1 | 1 | — |
6 | 176 | 163 | 19 |
(a) Aspirin 5.16 grains per tablet. Free Salicylic Acid 0.1%, i.e., twice
B.P. Limit.
(b) Soluble solids 67.7%. Slight deficiency in soluble solids. Fruit
approximately 67%—sulphite none.
(c) Soluble solids 65%. Fruit approximately 58%. Free from sulphite.
Slightly low in soluble solids.
(d) Meat 69%.
(e) Potato starch and wheat flour with m.e. cellulose. (Inaccurate
label—ingredients in wrong order and wheat flour not Amylum)
(f) Vitamin C. 9.3 mg/fl. oz. Not "fortified."
(g) Vitamin C. 2.0 mg/fl. oz. Not "fortified."
(h) (i) Adulterated. 53% Meat. 18.5% deficient.
(ii) Adulterated. 52% Meat. 20% deficient.
(iii) Inferior. Meat 58%. Sulphite absent. Deficient 10.8% minimum
amount of meat.
(iv) Adulterated. Deficient 16.9% minimum amount of meat.
(v) Inferior. Deficient 4.6% minimum amount of meat.
(vi) Inferior. Meat 58%. Sulphite absent.
(j) (i) Meat 61%.
(ii) Deficiency of meat below the minimum amount 16.9%.
(iii) Meat 60%. Sulphite none.
(k) Maize starch (undeclared) total sugar 46.3%. Sod. bicarb 4.6%.
Tartaric Acid 4.2%.
(1) Fairly rancid taste due to oxidative rancidity.
(m) Acetic acid 4.17w/v, Salt 0.91%. The presence of added salt
should be declared.
No. of Samples taken. | Description. | Satisfactory. | Unsatisfactory. |
---|---|---|---|
149 | Designated Milk | 135 | 14 |
6 | Washed Bottles | 6 | - |
155 | 141 | 14 |