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 Paddington, Metropolitan Borough of]
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Samples Submitted to Public Analyst—1929.
Total. | Found adulterated. | Percentage adulterated. | |
---|---|---|---|
Ale | 4 | — | — |
Ammoniated Tincture of Quinine | 2 | — | — |
Baking Powder | 6 | — | — |
Beef a nd Tongue | 1 | — | — |
Blue Pills | 1 | — | — |
Boracic Ointment | 2 | — | — |
Borax | 1 | — | — |
Brandy | 1 | — | — |
Bread | 3 | — | — |
Breakfast Tongue | 2 | — | — |
Butter | 11 | — | — |
Cake | 4 | — | — |
Calomel Ointment | 1 | — | — |
Camphorated Oil | 2 | — | — |
Cheese | 9 | — | — |
Chocolate | 3 | — | — |
Cocoa | 4 | — | — |
Coffee | 6 | — | — |
Compound Mustard | 1 | — | — |
Corned Beef | 1 | — | — |
Cream | 7 | — | — |
Crystallised Fruit | 2 | — | — |
Crystallised Ginger | 2 | — | — |
Custard Powder | 6 | — | — |
Dried Coffee Extract | 1 | — | — |
Dried Coffee and Chicory Extract | 1 | — | — |
Dripping | 2 | — | — |
Egg Substitute Powder | 1 | — | — |
Essence of Coffee | 1 | — | — |
Essence of Coffee and Chicory | 5 | — | — |
Fish Paste | 2 | — | — |
Fish, Tinned | 3 | — | — |
Flour | 4 | — | — |
Fruit Cordial | 1 | — | — |
Fruit, Dried | 3 | — | — |
Fruit, Tinned | 4 | — | — |
Galantine | 1 | — | — |
Gin | 4 | 2 | 50.0 |
Golden Syrup | 1 | — | — |
Gravy Salt | 1 | — | — |
Ground Ginger | 1 | — | — |
Honey | 4 | — | — |
Ice Cream | 3 | — | — |
Iodine Ointment | 1 | — | — |
Iodine, Strong Tincture of | 1 | — | — |
Iodine, Weak Tincture of | 1 | — | — |
Iron Pills | 1 | — | — |
Iron Wine | 1 | — | — |
Jam | 12 | — | — |
Lard | 2 | — | — |
Lemonade Powder | 3 | — | — |
Lemon Squash | 2 | — | — |
Lime Juice | 1 | — | — |
Liniment of Turpentine | 1 | — | — |
Margarine | 13 | — | — |
Meat Extract | 5 | — | — |
Meat Paste | 5 | — | — |
Mercury Ointment (Strong) | 1 | — | — |
Milk | 316 | 12 | 3.8 |
Milk, Condensed Skimmed Sweetened | 10 | — | — |
Milk, Dried Skimmed | 5 | — | — |
Milk, Dried Full Cream | 1 | — | — |
Milk, Full Cream Condensed Sweetened | 3 | — | — |
Milk, Full Cream Condensed Unsweetened | 1 | — | — |
Milk, Full Cream Dried and Virol | 1 | — | — |
Milk, Separated | 3 | 3 | 100.0 |
Mincemeat | 3 | — | — |
Mineral Waters | 4 | — | — |
Mustard | 3 | — | — |
Orange Quinine Wine | 1 | — | — |
Peas | 1 | — | — |
Peas, Tinned | 4 | — | — |
Pepper | 4 | — | — |
Pickles | 3 | — | — |
Port Wine | 1 | — | — |
Prescription | 1 | — | — |
Rum | 3 | — | — |
Rice | 2 | — | — |
Sago | 2 | — | — |
Salad Cream | 2 | — | — |
Sauce | 5 | — | — |
Sausages | 11 | — | — |
Semolina | 2 | — | — |
Sherry | 1 | — | — |
Shredded Suet with Flour | 5 | — | — |
Sponge Cakes | 2 | — | — |
Stout | 4 | — | — |
Sugar | 3 | — | — |
Sulphur Ointment | 1 | — | — |
Sweets | 2 | — | — |
Tomatoes, Tinned | 1 | — | — |
Tea Siftings | 1 | — | — |
Tapioca | 2 | — | — |
Veal | 1 | — | — |
Vinegar | 2 | — | — |
Vinegar of Squills | 1 | — | — |
White Precipitate Ointment | 2 | 1 | 50.0 |
Whisky | 2 | — | — |
Yellow Mercury Oxide Ointment | 1 | — | — |
Zinc Ointment | 2 | — | — |
600 | 18 | 3.0 |