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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
Bethnal Green 1907
Report on the sanitary condition and vital statistics during the year 1907 together with the report of the Chief Sanitary Inspector
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APPENDIX D (3).
Sale of Food and Drugs Acts 1875 to 1899. Samples taken for General Information.
| Articles. | No. of Samples Purchased. | No. Reported Genuine. | No. Reported Adulterated. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Butter, Salt | 5 | 4 | 1 |
| Castor Oil | 1 | 1 | — |
| Cheese | 3 | 3 | — |
| Chocolate Powder | 1 | — | 1 |
| Cocoa and Milk | 1 | 1 | — |
| Coffee | 4 | 1 | 3 |
| Cream of Tartar | 2 | 2 | — |
| Gregory Powder | 2 | 2 | — |
| Jam, Raspberry | 4 | 2 | 2 |
| „ Black Currant | 1 | 1 | — |
| Lard | 3 | 3 | — |
| Linseed, Liquorice and Chlorodyne Lozenges | 1 | 1 | — |
| Mace, Ground | 1 | 1 | — |
| Marmalade | 2 | 2 | — |
| Margarine | 13 | 9 | 4 |
| „ (Best Mixture) | 3 | 3 | — |
| Milk | 4 | 3 | 1 |
| „ Condensed | 1 | 1 | — |
| Milk of Sulphur | 2 | 2 | — |
| Pea Flour | 1 | 1 | — |
| Peas, Preserved | 1 | 1 | — |
| Saffron | 1 | 1 | — |
| Sausage, Beef | 1 | 1 | — |
| „ Pork | 1 | — | 1 |
| Strasburg Beef | 1 | 1 | — |
| Sugar, Demerara | 1 | 1 | — |
| Tartaric Acid | 1 | 1 | — |
Those vendors from whom adulterated or impure foodstuffs were
obtained were, of course, kept under observation, and dealt with
officially under the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts.
Fried Fish Sampled.
Owing to certain complaints, your Committee in December
ordered portions of fried fish to be purchased and submitted to
examination by the Clinical Research Association. This was done,
the Association reporting in all cases that the fish was apparently in
good condition when fried, nothing suspicious being discovered in
connection with any of the portions examined. In two cases, however,
the operation of cooking had been only partially performed, the interior
parts of the pieces of fish being quite raw.