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 Battersea Borough]
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The following tables give details of the articles of food of which samples were obtained for the purpose of analysis.
Nature of Sample | EXAMINED | ADULTERATED | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Formal | Informal | Total | Formal | Informal | Total | |
Baking Powder | – | 3 | 3 | – | – | – |
Blancmange Powder | – | 4 | 4 | – | – | – |
Bread | – | 7 | 7 | – | – | – |
Butter | 33 | – | 33 | 2 | – | 2 |
Cake and Pudding Mixture | – | 13 | 13 | – | – | – |
Cereal Preparations | 1 | 12 | 13 | – | – | |
Cheese | 1 | 2 | 3 | – | – | |
Cider Vinegar | 1 | – | 1 | – | ||
Cocoa | 1 | ? | 4 | – | – | |
Coconut, Desiccated | – | 1 | 1 | – | – | – |
Coffee | 4 | 2 | 6 | – | – | – |
Coffee and Chicory Essence | 4 | 2 | 6 | – | – | – |
Confectionery Flour | 4 | 8 | 12 | – | 1 | 1 |
Confectionery Sugar | 3 | 7 | 10 | 1 | – | 1 |
Cream, Tinned | – | 1 | 1 | – | – | – |
Custard Powder | – | 3 | 3 | – | – | – |
Fish Paste | – | 16 | 16 | – | – | – |
Flavourings | – | 5 | 5 | – | – | – |
Flour, Self Raising | 6 | – | 6 | – | – | – |
Foam Crystals | – | 1 | 1 | – | – | – |
Food-Colour | – | 3 | 3 | – | – | – |
Fruit, Dried | 8 | – | 8 | – | – | – |
Fruit Preserving Tablets | – | 3 | 3 | – | – | |
Gelatine | – | 4 | 4 | – | – | – |
Gin | 11 | – | 1 | – | – | – |
Glucose | – | 3 | 3 | – | – | – |
Golden Raising Powder | – | 4 | 4 | – | – | – |
Gravy Preparations | – | 10 | – | – | – | |
Ice Cream | 6 | — | 6 | – | – | – |
Jams and Preserves | 5 | 6 | 11 | – | – | – |
Jelly | 9 | 3 | 12 | – | 1 | 1 |
Junket Preparations | – | 2 | 2 | – | – | – |
Lard and other Fats | 19 | – | 19 | 1 | – | 1 |
Lemonade Crystals | – | 3 | 3 | – | 1 | 1 |
Margarine | 3 | 1 | 4 | – | – | – |
Meat Preparations:— | ||||||
Beef, Minced | 1 | – | 1 | – | – | – |
Black Pudding | 1 | – | 1 | – | – | – |
Faggots | 1 | – | 1 | – | – | – |
Meat Extract | – | 3 | 3 | – | – | – |
Meat Paste | – | 14 | 14 | – | – | – |
Meat Pies | 3 | 1 | 4 | – | – | – |
Sausages | 26 | – | 26 | 1 | – | 1 |
Sausage, Breakfast | 1 | – | 1 | – | – | – |
Sausage, Liver | 1 | 1 | 2 | – | – | – |
Sausage, Luncheon | – | 1 | 1 | – | – | – |
Sausage Rolls | 1 | – | 1 | – | – | – |
Savoury Rolls | 1 | – | 1 | – | – | – |
Milk | 100 | 100 | 3 | – | 3 | |
Carried forward | 245 | 152 | 397 | 8 | 3 | 1 |