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Sutton and Cheam 1945
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Sutton and Cheam]
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Pood and Drugs Act 1938
The following table indicates the samples taken during the year 1945:-
| NUMBER EXAMINED | NUMBER ADULTERATED ETC. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Informal | Formal | Total | Informal | Formal | Total | |
| Milk | 58 | 58 | ||||
| Butter | 4 | 4 | ||||
| Margarine | 4 | 4 | ||||
| Lard | 4 | 4 | ||||
| Suet | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Meat Extract | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Sausages | 1 | 3 | 4 | |||
| Sausages, Pork | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Sausages, Beef | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Sausages, Vegetable | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Sausage meat | 1 | 1 | * | |||
| Tea | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Drinking Chocolate | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Cake mixture | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Pudding Mixture | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Sponge Pudding | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Semolina | 1 | ' | 1 | |||
| Semolina (Lemon Flavour) | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Golden Raising Powder | 5 | 5 | • | |||
| Egg Substitute Powder | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Baking Powder | 3 | 3 | ||||
| Flour - Batter | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Flour - Bun | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Flour - Cake | 1 | |||||
| Flour - Self-raising | 5 | 5 | ||||
| Oat Flour | 1 | |||||
| Flour - Soya | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Breadcrumbs | 1 | |||||
| Stuffing, Sage & Onion | 1 | |||||
| Flavouring Essence - Almond | 2 | V | 2 | |||
| Flavour - Blackcurrant | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Flavouring Essence, Banana | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Flavouring Essence, Cocoanut | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Flavouring Essence, Lemon | 1 | 1 | ||||
| "Semolalf | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Table Jelly crystals | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Cornflour flavoured Raspberry | 1 | |||||
| Cornflour flavoured strawberry | 1 | |||||
| Cornflour flavoured Vanilla | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Arrowroot | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Jam | 8 | 8 | ||||
| Marmalade | 3 | |||||
| Invert Sugar & Honey | 1 | - | 1 | |||
| Gelatine | 5 | 5 | ||||
| Glycerine | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Glycerine & Rosewater | 1 | |||||
| Cinnamon, Ground | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Ground Ginger | 4 | 4 | ||||
| Nutmegs, Ground | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Kesbah Kidney Cure | ||||||
| Horseradish Cream | ||||||
| "Sevoura" | ||||||
| Pepper | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Mustard - liquid | 2 | |||||
| Mustard - mixture | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Carried forward | 64 | 155 | 2 | |||
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