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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
Hammersmith 1935
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hammersmith Borough]
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CHEMICAL AND BACTERIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION
OF FOOD.
The chemical examination of food is carried out by the
Public Analyst at the Laboratories, Royal Dental Hospital,
Leicester Square.
Eight hundred samples taken under the Sale of Food
and Drugs Acts were examined during the year.
Over 50 per cent. of the articles analysed were milk
samples.
The bacteriological examination of food is carried out by
the Pathologist of the University College Hospital Medical
School and the West London Hospital.
In the case of food poisoning specimens are sent to the
Ministry of Health.