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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Table V (Continued)
Food | Number examined | Number Adulterated | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Formal | Informal | Total | Formal | Informal | Total | |
Oats, Breakfast | – | 3 | r? | – | – | – |
Olive Oil | – | 1 | 1 | – | – | – |
Paraffin, Medicinal | – | 4 | 4 | – | 1 | 1 |
Paraffin, Soft (Vaseline) | – | 1 | 1 | – – | – | – – |
Pastry Mix | – – | 2 | 2 | – | – | – |
Peel, Candied | – | 4 | 4 | – | – | – |
Pepper | – | 6 | 6 | – | = | – |
Pepper Compound | – | 1 | – | – | ||
Pickles | – | 10 | 10 | – | 1 | 1 |
Potato Crisps | – – | 1 | 1 | – | – | – |
Proprietary Foods (Bournvita, Ovaltine, Vitacup) | – | 3 | 3 | – | – | – |
Puddings, Christmas | – | 1 | 1 | – | – | 1 |
Saccharin Tablets | – | 5 | 5 | – | 1 | 1 |
Salad Cream | – | 1 | – | 1 | – | |
Sal Volatile | – | 1 | 1 | – | – | – |
Salt | – | 4 | 4 | – | 1 | ■ |
Sauce | – | 9 | 9 | – | – | – |
Sausages | 1 | 9 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
Seidlitz Powders | – | 3 | 3 | – | – | – |
Senna Pods | – – | 1 | – | – | – | |
Sherry | – | 1 | – | – | – | |
Soda, Bi-carbonate of | – | 1 | – | – | ||
Soup | – | 1 | 1 | – | – | |
Soud. Canned | – | 18 | 18 | – | – | – |
Soup, Powder | – | 6 | 7 | – | – | – |
Spaghetti in Meat Sauce | – | 1 | – | – | – | |
Spaghetti in Tomato Sauce | – | 1 | 1 | – | – | – – |
Spices | – | 7 | 7 | – | – | – – |
Stuffing Mixture | – | 5 | 5 | – | – | – |
Suet, Shredded | – | 5 | I 5 | – | – | – |
Sugar | – | 6 | 6 | – | – | – |
Sulphur Ointment | – | 1 | – | – | – | |
Tartaric Acid | – | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
Tea | – | 5 | 5 | – | – | |
Turpentine, Oil of | – | 1 | – | – | – | |
Vegetables, Canned | – | 15 | 15 | – | – | – – |
Vinegar (Malt) | – | 3 | 3 | – | 1 | 1 |
Wines, Alcoholic | – | 2 | 2 | – | – | – |
Wintergreen Ointment | – | 2 | 2 | – | – | – |
Yeast Tablets | – | 1 | 1 | – | – | – |
Zinc and Castor Oil Ointment | – | 1 | 1 | – | – | – |
Totals | 86 | 443 | 529 | 3 | 25 | 28 |