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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
Wanstead and Woodford 1952
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wanstead and Woodford]
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3. Pork Sausages. Three samples of pork sausages were reported
upon by the Public Analysts as containing deficiencies in meat, the details
are given below.
1. Meat content 58%, deficiency 10% of minimum quantity.
2. Meat content 45%, deficiency 30% of minimum quantity.
3. Meat content 57%, deficiency 12% of minimum quantity.
These samples were informal and were purchased late in the year.
Because of the difficulty of obtaining further specimens, repeat and forma
samples could not be obtained until 1953.
4. Ice Creflm. Complaint was received of a sample of coffee flavoured
ice cream which the purchaser alleged tasted of disinfectant. The result
of the analysis did not confirm this allegation, the Public Analyst reporting
it to be genuine ice cream.
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| Butter | 1 | Milk | 10 |
| Margarine | 1 | Glace Cherries | 1 |
| Cooking Fat | 1 | Ground Nutmegs | 1 |
| Semolina | 1 | Baking Powder | 1 |
| Ground Rice | 1 | Blancmange Powder | 1 |
| Cheese | 1 | Xmas Pudding | 1 |
| Bacon | 1 | Luncheon Meat | 1 |
| Coffee | 1 | Malt Vinegar | 1 |
| Sugar | 1 | Vermicelli | 1 |
| Meat Paste | 1 | Soup | 2 |
| Gelatine | 1 | Frying Oil | 4 |
| Pepper | 2 | Strawberry Jelly | 1 |
| Curry Powder | 2 | Saccharin Tablets | 1 |
| Mixed Spice | 1 | Olive Oil | 1 |
| Tarts | 6 | Lucozade | 1 |
| Mincemeat | 1 | Sulphur Tablets | 1 |
| Pork Sausages | 11 | Boracic Powder | 1 |
| Beef Suet | 1 | Liquid Paraffin | 1 |
| Flour, Self Raising | 1 | Syrup of Figs | 1 |
| Mixed Herbs | 1 | Cascara Sagrada | 1 |
| Sage and Onion Stuffing | 1 | Friars Balsam | 1 |
| Desiccated Coco-nut | 1 | Glaubers Salts | 1 |
| Stewing Steak | 1 | Bisurated Magnesia | 1 |
| Black Pudding | 1 | Cream of Magnesia | 1 |
| Pork Pie | 1 | Glycerin of Thymol | 1 |
| Pork Brawn | 3 | Zinc Ointment | 1 |
| Fish Cakes | 1 | Siedlitz Powder | 1 |
| Steak Pies | 1 | Tincture of Iodine | 1 |
| Meat Pie | 2 | Camphorated Oil | 1 |
| Ground Almonds | 2 | Quinine Bisulphate | 1 |
| Ice Cream | 10 | Total | 104 |