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 Deptford Borough]
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Samples Taken—continued.
Articles. | Number Genuine. | Number Adulterated. | Total | Percentage of Adulterated Samples. |
---|---|---|---|---|
Brought forward | 34 | 2 | 36 | |
Fish, tinned | 5 | .. | 5 | .. |
Flour, egg, self-raising | 1 | .. | 1 | .. |
Flour | 6 | .. | 6 | .. |
Fruits, dried | 19 | .. | 19 | .. |
Fruit, tinned | 7 | 1 | 8 | 12.5 |
Gelatine | 5 | .. | 5 | .. |
Ginger, crystalliised | 1 | .. | 1 | .. |
Jam, black currant | 1 | .. | 1 | .. |
Jam, raspberry, seedless | 1 | .. | 1 | .. |
Jam, strawberry | 1 | .. | 1 | .. |
Jelly, table | 2 | .. | 2 | .. |
Lemonade powder | 1 | .. | 1 | .. |
Malt extract, with cod liver oil | 1 | .. | 1 | .. |
Macaroni, cut | 1 | .. | 1 | .. |
Margarine | .. | 1 | 1 | 100 |
Meat paste | 9 | .. | 9 | .. |
Milk | 1 | .. | 1 | .. |
Milk, condensed | 2 | .. | 2 | .. |
Milk, dried | 3 | .. | 3 | .. |
Milk food, modified | 2 | .. | 2 | .. |
Mincemeat | 1 | .. | 1 | .. |
Mint, dried | 1 | .. | 1 | .. |
Pickles | 1 | .. | 1 | .. |
Pepper | 1 | .. | 1 | .. |
Parrish's chemical food | 1 | .. | 1 | .. |
Peas, tinned | 1 | .. | 1 | .. |
Peel chopped | 2 | .. | 2 | .. |
Pork and beans, with tomato sauce | .. | 1 | 1 | 100 |
Pineapple, glace | 1 | .. | 1 | .. |
Rice ground | 1 | .. | 1 | .. |
Salad cream | 2 | .. | 2 | .. |
Sild, tinned | 8 | 3 | 11 | 27•3 |
Sage | 1 | .. | 1 | .. |
Stuffing, sage and onions | 1 | .. | 1 | .. |
Sultanas | 1 | .. | 1 | .. |
Sweets | 20 | 2 | 22 | 9.1 |
Tea siftings | 1 | .. | 1 | .. |
Treacle | 2 | .. | .. | |
Tripe | 2 | •• | 2 | .. |
Zinc ointment, B.C. | .. | 1 | 1 | 100 |
Vinegar | 6 | • • | 6 | .. |
Wine, alcoholic | 10 | .. | 10 | .. |
Wine, non alcoholic | 4 | .. | 4 | .. |
Total Informal Samples | 171 | 11 | 182 | 60 |