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Bethnal Green 1951

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal Green Borough]

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Other Foodstuffs
Baby Pood 88 tins
Breakfast Cereals 15 packets
Cake Flour 4 packets
Cheese 20 packets
Chickens 3 and 2 Jars
Chocolate Eggs 3,200
Coffee 1 tin, 5 bottles
Cooking fat 1 tin
Eggs 2 tins and 198
Fish 18 Jars, 74 tins
Fish Paste 12 Jars
Fruit 57 Jars, 534 tins
Gherkins 6 tins
Jam 32 Jars, 5 tins
Meat 636 tins
Milk 888 tins
Peanut Butter 5 Jars
Pickles 4 Jars
Pies (Meat)2
Puddings 2 tins
Rabbits 436
Sandwich Spread 5 Jars
Sauce 25 bottles
Sausages 17 tins
Soup 41 tins
Spaghetti 4 tint
Syrup 3 tins
Suet 7 packets
Sweets (fruitade
tablets) 288 packets
Turkeys 10
Vegetables 357 tins
(d) Food and Drugs Act
Out of a total of 325 samples (71 formal and 254 informal)
examined by the Public Analyst during 1951,1 of the formal
samples and 3 of the informal samples were found to be adulterated.