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 Wanstead and Woodford]
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Eight samples of ice-cream were submitted to the Public
Analysts to ascertain the fat content of the mixture. These samples
contained fat to the following extent:—
11.3 per cent, 11.7 per cent, 11.2 per cent, 12.5 per cent,
12,8 per cent, 11.9 per cent, 11.2 per cent, 12.6 per cent.
Three samples of double cream and one sample of single cream
were submitted to the Public Analysts to ascertain the fat content
of the mixture. These samples contained fat to the following extent:—
Double cream — 50.7 per cent, 48.5 per cent, 48.9 per cent.
Single cream — 18.0 per cent.
Cherries | 13 tins | ||
Whiting | 7½ stone | Strawberries | 2 tins |
Plaice | 4 stone | Fruit Salad | 5 tins |
Skate | 6 stone | Grapefruit | 3 tins |
Lemon Soles | 2 stone | Prunes | 1 tin |
Herring Roes | 2 tins | Peas | 27 tins |
Sardines | 40 tins | Beans | 16 tins |
Salmon | 2 tins | Carrots | 1 tin |
Pilchards | 3 tins | Tomatoes | 20 tins |
Lobster | 1 tins | Vegetables, Mixed | 2 tins |
Crab | 1 tin | Beetroot | 6 tins |
Cape Fish | 1 tin | Celery Heart | 1 tin |
Fish Cutlets | 1 tin | ||
Evaporated | 16 tins | ||
Raspberries | 552 lbs. | Condensed | 26 tins |
Full Cream | 1 tin | ||
Blackberries | 1 tin | ||
Apples | 26 tins | Luncheon Meat | 49 tins |
Blackcurrants | 9 tins | Meat Loaf | 41 tins |
Plums | 151 tins | Veal, Jellied | 82 tins |
Pineapple | 4 tins | Pork Butts | 276 tins |
Grapes | 1 tins | Corned Beef | 21 tins |
Peaches | 9 tins | Corned Beef | 12 lbs. |
Apricots | 7 tins | Ham | 53 tins |
Raspberries | 12 tins | Ham | 83½ lbs. |
Oranges | 8 tins | Pork | 6 tins |
Damsons | 2 tins | Sausages | 1 tin |
Pears | 7 tins | Corned Mutton | 1 tin |
Greengages | 1 tin | Chopped Pork | 5 tins |