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. | ||||
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Formal | Informal | Total | Formal | Informal | Total | |
Ale | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | — |
Almonds, ground | — | — | — | — | ||
(including 1 mixture) | — | 3 | 3 | — | — | — |
Arrowroot | — | 2 | 2 | — | 1 | 1 |
Asprin tablets | — | 3 | 3 | — | — | — |
Baking powder and golden raising powder | — | 3 | 3 | — | — | — |
Barley flour | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | — |
Biscuits (cheese straws) | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | — |
Black pudding | — | 2 | 2 | — | — | — |
Borax and honey | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | — |
Boric acid | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | — |
Butter | — | 6 | 6 | — | — | — |
Cake decorations | — | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 |
Cake and pudding mixtures | — | 5 | 5 | — | — | — |
Cakes | — | 2 | 2 | — | — | — |
Calamine lotion | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | — |
Camphorated oil | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | — |
Cascara sagrada tablets | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | — |
Castor oil | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | — |
Cheese spread | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | — |
Coconut, desiccated | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | — |
Coffee | — | 3 | 3 | — | — | — |
Coffee extract, dried | — | 2 | 2 | — | — | — |
Coffee & chieory essence | — | 8 | 8 | — | — | — |
Confectionery, flour (cakes) | — | 3 | 3 | — | — | — |
Cooking fat | — | 2 | 2 | — | — | — |
Confectionery, sugar | — | 2 | 2 | — | 1 | 1 |
Cornflour | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | — |
Cream, imitation | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | — |
Cream, powder, synthetic | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | — |
Curry powder | — | 5 | 5 | — | — | — |
Custard powder | — | 3 | 3 | — | — | — |
Drinks, soft | — | 6 | 6 | — | 1 | 1 |
Easton's Syrup | — | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 |
Epsom salts | — | 2 | 2 | — | — | — |
Figs, compound syrup of | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | — |
Fish, canned (prawns sild, etc.) | — | 6 | 6 | — | — | — |
Fish cakes | — | 2 | 2 | — | __ | — |
Fish paste | — | 6 | 6 | — | — | — |
Flavouring essence | — | 3 | 3 | — | — | — |
Flour, self raising | — | 3 | 3 | — | — | — |