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 Wimbledon]
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Sampling of Food and Drugs.
The following samples were submitted to the Public Analyst during 1959, with the results shown :—
Articles | Total | Formal | Informal | Genuine | Non-Genuine or Irregular |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Bananas, dried | 1 | 1 | _ | 1 | |
Bilberries, dried | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | - |
Biscuits | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | - |
Blancmange Powder | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | - |
Bouillon cubes | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | - |
Brawn | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | - |
Bread and butter | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | - |
Cheese | 2 | 2 | — | 2 | - |
Cheese spread | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | - |
Chicklettes | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | - |
Christmas pudding | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | - |
Cod, frozen | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | - |
Confectionery, flour | 2 | 2 | — | 2 | - |
Confectionery, sugar | 4 | 2 | 2 | 4 | - |
Cordial | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | - |
Cream | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | - |
Custard powder | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | - |
Dates | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | - |
Dessert, table | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | - |
Flour, plain | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | - |
Fruit, cocktail | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | - |
Fruit salad | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | - |
Ginger cordial | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | - |
Hamburgers | 1 | 1 | — | — | 1 |
Horseradish sauce | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | - |
Icing sugar | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | - |
Jelly, decorating | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | - |
Jelly, table | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | - |
Lemonade | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | - |
Lolly, frozen | 2 | 2 | — | 2 | - |
Luncheon meat, pork | 1 | 1 | — | — | 1 |
Milk | 46 | 46 | — | 46 | - |
Mock salmon cutlets | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | - |
Mushrooms | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | - |
Mustard and cress | 1 | 1 | __ | 1 | - |
Oats | 1 | 1 | __ | 1 | - |
Orange drink | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | |
Oranges in syrup | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | - |
Peanuts, salted | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | - |
Peas, canned | 1 | 1 | _ | 1 | - |
Pease pudding | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | - |
Pickle | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 | - |
Pickled onions | 1 | __ | 1 | 1 | - |
Pineapple, canned | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | - |
Prunes | 1 | 1 | _ | 1 | - |
Ravioli in sauce | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - |
Rennet, essence of | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | - |
Rhubarb, canned | 1 | 1 | __ | 1 | - |
Roes, cod | 1 | 1 | __ | 1 | - |
Roes, herring | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | - |
Sage, dried | 1 | 1 | _ | 1 | - |
Salmon | 1 | 1 | _ | 1 | - |
Sauce | 2 | 2 | 2 | - | |
Sausage rolls | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - |
Shrimps | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | - |
C/Fwd. | 112 | 93 | 19 | 110 | 2 |