London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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
Holborn 1953
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Holborn Borough]
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Food Sampling.
A total of 519 samples of foods and drugs were purchased and submitted to the Borough Analyst for chemical analysis durin the year. 515 were formal samples and 4 were informal.
| Article. | Number of Samples purchased |
|---|---|
| Bacon | 4 |
| Baking Powder | 1 |
| Beer, Wines and Spirits | 7 |
| Blackcurrant Juice | 1 |
| Bread, Biscuits and Cakes | 13 |
| Butter | 4 |
| Cake Mixture | 3 |
| Cereals | 7 |
| Cheese | 7 |
| Cocoa | 2 |
| Coconut | 2 |
| Coffee | 3 |
| Condiments | 31 |
| Confectionery | 8 |
| Cooking Fat or Lard | 3 |
| Cream, Tinned | 3 |
| Custard Powder | 2 |
| Drugs and Medical Preparations | 16 |
| Essences and Flavourings | 3 |
| Fish, tinned, and Fish Paste | 4 |
| Fruits, fresh, tinned and preserved | 18 |
| Herbs and Spices | 3 |
| Honey | 1 |
| Ice Cream | 28 |
| Icing Sugar | 1 |
| Jams and Preserves | 10 |
| Jelly and Jelly Crystals | 5 |
| Lemonade Crystals | 1 |
| Margarine | 2 |
| Meat and Meat Preparations | 66 |
| Milk | 175 |
| Milk, condensed | 3 |
| Peanut Butter | 1 |
| Pickles | 2 |
| Puddings and Pudding Mixtures | 10 |