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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
Deptford 1956
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Deptford Borough]
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TABLE V Samples of Food Submitted for Analysis.
| Food | Number Examined | Number Adulterated, etc. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Formal | Informal | Total | Formal | Informal | Total. | |
| Almonds | 1 | 11 | __— | |||
| Angelica | 1 | 1 | – | – | ||
| Arrowroot | 2 | 2 | – | |||
| Aspirin Tablets | 10 | 10 | – | – | ||
| Bacon | 3 | 3 | – | – | ||
| Baking Powder | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Biscuits | 7 | 7 | – | – | ||
| Bread and Breadcrumbs | 10 | 10 | – | – | ||
| Bread roll | 1 | 1 | – | – | ||
| Butter | 10 | 10 | – | |||
| Cake and Pudding Mixtures | 4 | 4 | – | – | ||
| Camphorated Oil | 4 | 5 | – | |||
| Camphorated Tallow, Compound | 2 | 2 | – | |||
| Cheese | 5 | 2 | — | – | ||
| Cheese rolls | 1 | 1 | – | |||
| Cheese spreads | 5 | 2 | – | |||
| Cocoa | 1 | 1 | – | |||
| Coconut, Desiccated | 3 | 3 | ||||
| Coffee extract | 3 | 3 | ||||
| Confectionery, Flour | 18 | 18 | 2 | 2 | ||
| Confectionery, Sugar | 30 | 39 | 2 | 2 | ||
| Cornflour | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Cream | 8 | 8 | ||||
| Curry Powder ... | 8 | 3 | ||||
| Custard Powder | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Dessert powder | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Drinks, soft | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Dripping | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Epsom Salts | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Fish, canned | 19 | 19 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Fish paste | 4 | 2 | ||||
| Flavouring Essence | 4 | 2 | ||||
| Flour (Self-raisine) | 2 | 7 | ||||
| Formalin Tablets | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Fish (bottled mussels) | 1 | 19 | – | |||
| Fruit (canned) | 19 | 19 | – | |||
| Fruit (dried) | 18 | 18 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Fruit (glace Cherries) | 4 | 4 | ||||
| Fruit (Grapes) | ! | 1 | – | |||
| Fruit Juice | 1 | 1 | – | |||
| Fruit (Lemon Curd) | 4 | 4 | – | |||
| Fruit Pies | 6 | 6 | – | |||
| Fruit and Jelly ... | 1 | 1 | – | |||
| Ginger (Crystallised) | 1 | 1 | – | |||
| Glauber's Salt | 1 | 1 | – | |||
| Glycerine ... ... ... ... | 1 | 1 | – | |||
| Golden Raising Powder | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Gravy Preparation | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Health Salts | 2 | 2 | — | |||
| Herbs (Dried) ... | 2 | 2 | E | |||
| Honey | 6 | 6 | – | |||
| Ice Cream | 3 | 3 I | – | |||
| Iodine, Tincture of | 5 | 5 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Jam | 6 | 1 | ||||
| Jelly Tablets | 5 | 5 | ||||
| Lard | 6 | 6 | – | |||
| Lemonade Powder ... | 2 | 2 | – | |||
| Margarine ... ... ... ... | 3 | 3 | – | |||
| Marmalade | 4 | 4 | – | |||
| Marzipan | 4 | 1 | – | |||
| Mayonnaise | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Meat, minced steak | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Meat, paste | 3 | 3 | ||||
| Meat products (including sausage rolls) | 25 | 25 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Meat Droducts, canned | 11 | 11 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Meat product, bottled ... | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Milk | 38 | 38 | ||||
| sweetened and sweetened) | 8 | 8 | ||||
| Carried forward | 1-^T | I 360 I | 360 | 11 | 11 | |