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 Carshalton]
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Food and Drugs Act, 1938
The following 344 samples were submitted to the Public Analyst with the following results:
Article | No. | Adulterated or otherwise irregular | Article | No. | Adulterated or otherwise irregular |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Baking Powder | 1 | Ice Lolly Mixture | 5 | ||
Beans (Tinned) | 1 | Jam | 1 | ||
Beer | 1 | Ketchup, Tomato | 1 | ||
Biscuits | 1 | Margarine | 2 | ||
Blackberries in Syrup | 1 | Marmalade | 1 | ||
Blackcurrant Syrup | 1 | Milk | 230 | 4 | |
Breadcrumbs | 1 | Mincemeat | 1 | ||
Butter | 1 | Mineral Water | |||
Cake | 2 | Mint Jelly | 1 | ||
Cereal (Baby Food) | 1 | Mixtures (Cake) | 1 | ||
Cheese Spread | 1 | Oranges | 1 | ||
Chicken Rissole | 1 | Orange Drink | 1 | ||
Cider | ] | Olive Oil | 1 | ||
Chocolate Roll | 1 | Paste (Meat) | 2 | ||
Cocoa | 1 | Peanut Butter | 1 | ||
Cocoanut Sugar | 1 | Pepper (White) | 1 | ||
Coffee and Chicory | Piccalilli | 1 | |||
Extract | 1 | Pie, Fruit | 1 | ||
Coffee | 1 | Pie, Meat | 1 | ||
Cordial | 1 | Pork Roll | 1 | ||
Cream | 1 | Pudding (Xmas) | 1 | ||
Crabmeat | 1 | Salad Cream | 1 | ||
Custard Powder | Sauce | 2 | |||
Dripping | Sausage, Beef | 1 | |||
Fish Cakes | 1 | Sausage, Pork | 3 | ||
Flour (Self Raising) | 1 | Sausage, Liver | 1 | ||
Flour (Plain) | 1 | Semolina | 1 | ||
Gelatine | I | Steak and Kidney | |||
Glucose | 1 | Pudding | 1 | ||
Glucose Drink | Soup | 2 | |||
Halibut Oil Capsules | Suet | 2 | |||
Health Salts | 1 | 1 | Sweets | 7 | |
Herbs (Mixed) | Vegetable Fat | 1 | |||
Honey | 1 | Vinegar (Malt) | 2 | ||
Horseradish | 1 | Vitamin Capsules | 2 | 1 | |
Ice Cream | 11 | Yeast and Vegetable | |||
Ice Lolly | 8 | Extract | 1 |
The following six samples were found to be adulterated or otherwise
irregular:
Milk—Four Samples
These were all from different vendors and were deficient in solids
other than fat to the extent of 1% in three instances and 2% in the
fourth. The explanation given in all was the same—that at that particular
lime of the year, viz: February/March, milk direct from the cow
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