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 Deptford, Metropolitan Borough of]
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Samples Taken—
Articles. | Number Genuine. | Number Adulterated. | Total | Percentage of Adulteration. |
---|---|---|---|---|
Brought forward | 141 | 13 | 154 | |
Flour | 2 | .. | 2 | 12.5 |
Fruit Pulp | 7 | 1 | 8 | .. |
Fruits, tinned | 12 | .. | 12 | .. |
Fruits, dried | 6 | .. | 6 | .. |
Galantine Roll | 1 | .. | 1 | .. |
Grape Fruit Squash | 1 | .. | 1 | .. |
Haricot Beans in Tomato Sauce | 1 | .. | 1 | .. |
Herbs, dried | 2 | .. | 2 | .. |
Honey, prepared | 1 | .. | 1 | .. |
Jam | 4 | 5 | 9 | 55.5 |
M eat Paste | 2 | .. | 2 | .. |
Menthol Pellets | 1 | .. | 1 | .. |
Mercurial Ointment | 2 | .. | 2 | .. |
„ Pills | 2 | .. | 2 | .. |
Mercury Ointment | .. | 1 | 1 | 100.0 |
Pills | .. | l | 1 | 100.0 |
Milk | 2 | .. | 2 | .. |
Jelly, Table | 2 | .. | 2 | .. |
Jellied Eels | 1 | .. | 1 | .. |
Lemon Squash | 1 | .. | 1 | .. |
Marmalade | 1 | .. | 1 | .. |
Milk and Milk Foods, dried | 5 | .. | 5 | .. |
Mushrooms, tinned | 4 | .. | 4 | .. |
Mustard Compound | 1 | .. | 1 | .. |
„ Prepared | 1 | .. | 1 | .. |
Mustard | .. | 1 | 1 | 100.0 |
Olive Oil, B.P. | 1 | .. | 1 | .. |
Oxtail Soup | 1 | .. | 1 | .. |
Pastries, Fancy | 1 | .. | 1 | .. |
Pepper | 1 | .. | 1 | .. |
Pepper Compound | 1 | .. | 1 | .. |
Peas | 1 | .. | 1 | .. |
Peas, tinned | 2 | .. | 2 | .. |
Rice, Cream | 2 | .. | 2 | .. |
Salmon | 1 | .. | 1 | .. |
Sardines, tinned | .. | 5 | 5 | 100.0 |
Sauce | 2 | .. | 2 | .. |
Sausage and Baked Beans in Tomato Sauce | 1 | .. | 1 | .. |
Shredded Beef Suet | 1 | .. | 1 | .. |
Soup Powder | 3 | .. | 3 | .. |
Sweets | 17 | .. | 17 | .. |
Syrup, Golden | 1 | .. | 1 | .. |
Tea | 1 | .. | 1 | .. |
Tonic Food | 1 | .. | 1 | .. |
Vinegar | 1 | .. | 1 | .. |
Vinegar Wine | 1 | 1 | .. | |
Vitoleum Cream | 1 | 1 | .. | |
Wafers | 7 | 2 | 9 | 22.2 |
Vegetables, tinned | 7 | .. | 7 | .. |
Wine, alcoholic | 1 | .. | 1 | .. |
Total Informal, etc., Samples | 259 | 29 | 288 | 10 1 |