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Hammersmith 1972
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hammersmith.
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HAMMERSMITH ANNUAL REPORT - 1972
| Number Examined | Number Adulterated | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Formal | Informal | Complaint | Total | Formal | Informal | Complaint | Total | |
| Angelica | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Baby Talcum Powder | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Beverages | ||||||||
| Chocolate | 2 | 2 | ||||||
| Malt | 4 | 4 | ||||||
| Biscuits | 3 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||
| Bread, rolls, crispbread | ||||||||
| and sandwiches | 7 | 18 | 25 | 3 | 16 | 19 | ||
| Bread pudding | I | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Cakes | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | |||
| Cake, pudding and pastry | ||||||||
| mixes | 24 | 24 | 3 | 3 | ||||
| Campden Tablets | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Cereals | ||||||||
| Baking powder | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Barley | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Breakfast | 8 | 3 | 11 | 2 | 2 | |||
| Corn | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Custard and | ||||||||
| blancmange powders | 4 | 4 | ||||||
| Flour | 6 | 1 | 7 | |||||
| Matzo Meal | 2 | 2 | ||||||
| Rice | 13 | 13 | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Semolina | 2 | 2 | ||||||
| Trahanas | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Wheat Germ | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Cheese | 1 | |||||||
| Goats Milk | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Hard | 2 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 4 | |||
| Soft | 6 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Spread | 8 | 8 | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Cocktail Savouries | 4 | 4 | 1 | |||||
| Coffee | 4 | 1 | 5 | 1 | ||||
| Confectionary | 11 | 8 | 19 | 6 | 6 | |||
| Convenience Meals | 15 | 15 | 3 | 3 | ||||
| Cream | 51 | 2 | 53 | 8 | 2 | 10 | ||
| Cream, soured | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Cream, imitation | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Crumpets | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Custard, prepared | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Dessert Mixes | 8 | 8 | ||||||
| Desserts Prepared | 14 | 14 | 3 | 3 | ||||
| Dietetic Foods | 6 | 6 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Edible Fats | ||||||||
| Butter | 14 | 2 | 16 | 2 | 2 | |||
| Cooking fat | 1 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Corn Oil | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Dripping | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Lard | 8 | 8 | ||||||
| Margarine | 18 | 18 | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Spread, low fat | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Eggs, Scotch | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Essence, rum | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Fish | ||||||||
| Canned and bottled | 24 | 1 | 25 | 4 | 1 | 5 | ||
| Cooked | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Frozen | 5 | 5 | ||||||
| Paste | 6 | 6 | ||||||
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