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 Greenwich Borough]
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Article
Number Examined
Number Adulterated &c.
Formal
Informal
Total
Formal
Informal
Total
Margarine
—
11
11
—
—
—
Meat pie
—
7
7
—
—
—
Meat products
—
5
5
—
1
1
Meat products, canned
—
7
7
—
—
—
Milk
22
32
54
1
4
5
Milk, condensed
—
1
1
—
—
—
Mincemeat
—
2
2
—
—
—
Mustard
—
1
1
—
—
—
Nutmeg galantine
—
1
1
—
—
—
Oats, rolled
—
2
2
—
—
—
Paraffin, medicinal
—
1
1
—
—
—
Pea flour
—
1
1
—
—
—
Peanut butter
—
1
1
—
—
—
Peas, dried
—
1
1
—
—
—
Peel, candied
—
1
1
—
—
—
Pepper and
substitutes
—
9
9
—
—
—
Pickles
—
3
3
—
1
1
Pudding, Christmas
—
1
1
—
—
—
Rice
—
4
4
—
1
1
Rum
1
—
1
—
—
—
Rusks
—
1
1
—
—
—
Saccharin tablets
—
2
2
—
—
—
Sago
—
1
1
—
—
—
Salad cream and
mayonnaise
—
5
5
—
—
—
Sal volatile, spirit of
1
2
3
1
1
2
Sandwich spread
—
2
2
—
—
—
Sauces
—
22
22
—
2
2
Sausages and
sausage-meat
1
10
11
1
1
Sausage, cooked
—
2
2
—
—
—
Seidlitz powder
—
1
1
—
—
—
Semolina
—
1
1
—
—
—
Soda, bicarbonate of
—
5
5
—
—
—
Soup,canned
—
15
15
—
7
7
Soup, powder
—
5
5
—
—
—
Soya flour
—
1
1
—
—
—
Spaghetti, canned
—
2
2
—
—
—
Spices
—
4
4
—
—
—
Stuffing mixture
—
1
1
—
—
—
Suet, shredded
1
3
4
1
1
2
Tapioca
—
4
4
—
—
—
Tea substitute
—
1
1
—
—
—
Tomatoes, juice and
1
1
puree
—
5
5
—
Treacle
—
1
1
—
—
—
Vegetables
—
21
21
—
—
—
Vermicelli
—
1
1
—
—
—
Vinegar and
1
substitutes
—
9
9
—
1
Whisky
4
—
4
—
—
—
Wine, alcoholic
—
1
1
—
—
—
Totals
33
428
461
3
32
35