London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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
Kensington 1924
The annual report on the health of the Borough for the year1924
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(a) Formal Samples.—These are samples which are taken strictly in conformity with the
requirements of the Sale of Food and Drugs Act, 1875, and during the year the Inspectors
collected 703, of which 36 or 5.1 per cent, were adulterated. Particulars of formal samples
collected are as follow :—
Nature of Sample.
Number
Taken.
Number
Adulterated.
Arrowroot4
Brawn202
Bread 6
British Wine 9 3
Butter 49 1
Cheese32
Cocoa13
Coffee21
Coffee & Chicory 1
Coffee & Chicory Essence 2
Condensed Full-Cream Sweetened Milk 2
Condensed Full-Cream Unsweetened Milk 5
Condensed Tomato 1
Cornflower10
Corned Beef 1
Cream 11 1
Custard Powder 5
Dried Half-Cream Milk 2
Dried Milk 4
Flour 14
Golden Syrup 4
Ground Ginger 7
Ground Rice 8
Ice Cream1
Jam2
Lard 22
Lemon Curd 1 1
Malt Vinegar 8 1
Margarine 11
Meat Paste 6 1
Milk 256 5
Mincemeat31
Mustard 3
Mustard Mixture 4
Olive Oil 9
Peas (Tinned)11
Pepper18
Potted Fish 1
Potted Meat 12
Prescriptions7 2
Preserved Cream 1 1
Raspberry Fruit Syrup 1 1
Rice3
Rum2
Sausages 31 9
Self-raising Flour 1
Sponge Cakes 14 2
Sweets8
Tapioca2
Tea6
Tomato Sauce 1
Vinegar242
Whisky92
Wood Vinegar 4
Total 703 36