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—1936.
Number examined. | Number adulterated. | Percentage adulterated. | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Formal. | Informal. | Formal. | Informal. | Formal. | Informal. | |
Ale | — | 5 | — | — | _ | _ |
Ammoniated Tincture of Quinine | _ | 2 | _ | - | _ | _ |
Anchovies | _ | 1 | _ | _ | - | - |
Baking Powder | - | 4 | - | — | — | _ |
Blue Ointment | - | 1 | - | — | — | _ |
Borax | - | 1 | - | — | — | _ |
Brawn | - | 1 | - | _ | _ | _ |
Bread | 5 | _ | _ | - | - | - |
Bread and Butter (cut) | - | 2 | - | — | _ | _ |
Butter | — | 10 | - | — | — | — |
Cake | — | 4 | - | — | — | _ |
Calomel Ointment | _ | 1 | _ | _ | _ | - |
Camphorated Oil | _ | 2 | _ | _ | _ | _ |
Candied Peel | — | 2 | - | _ | — | _ |
Cheese | — | 6 | - | — | _ | - |
Chocolate | _ | 3 | _ | _ | _ | |
Chocolate Caramels | _ | 1 | _ | _ | _ | _ |
Chopped Suet | _ | 2 | _ | _ | _ | - |
Claret | _ | 1 | _ | _ | - | - |
Cocoa | _ | 4 | _ | _ | _ | - |
Coffee | _ | 6 | _ | _ | _ | - |
Coffee Extract | _ | 1 | _ | _ | - | - |
Corned Beef | _ | 2 | _ | _ | - | - |
Crab Paste | _ | 3 | - | _ | - | - |
Cream | - | 11 | - | - | - | - |
Crystalised Fruit Jellies | _ | 1 | _ | _ | - | - |
Crystalised Ginger | _ | 2 | _ | _ | - | _ |
Custard Powder | - | 4 | _ | _ | _ | _ |
Dried Fruit | — | 10 | - | _ | _ | _ |
Dripping | — | 4 | - | — | — | _ |
Essence of Coffee and Chicory | — | 5 | - | — | — | — |
Fish Paste | — | 1 | - | — | _ | _ |
Flour | — | 2 | - | _ | _ | _ |
Full Cream Condensed Milk, Sweetened | — | 4 | - | — | _ | _ |
Full Cream Dried Milk Food | - | 3 | - | - | - | - |
Gin | — | 5 | - | — | _ | _ |
Ginger Beer | _ | 2 | _ | - | - | - |
Grape Fruit Crush | _ | 1 | _ | _ | - | _ |
Ground Almonds | _ | 5 | _ | _ | _ | _ |
Half Cream Dried Milk Food | — | 1 | - | — | _ | _ |
Honey | — | 3 | - | — | — | _ |
Ice Cream | _ | 9 | _ | - | - | _ |
Iodine Ointment | _ | 2 | _ | - | - | - |
Jam | _ | 10 | _ | 1 | _ | 10.00 |
Jelly | — | 2 | - | — | _ | - |
Lard | — | 4 | - | — | _ | _ |
Lemonade Powder | — | 4 | - | — | — | _ |
Margarine | — | 11 | - | — | _ | _ |
Meat Paste | _ | 5 | _ | _ | - | _ |
Mercury Ointment | _ | 1 | _ | _ | _ | _ |
Milk | 300 | — | 6 | — | 2.00 | _ |
Mincemeat | — | 3 | — | — | _ | _ |
Mineral Water | — | 2 | — | — | — | — |
Mustard | — | 6 | — | — | _ | _ |
Pepper | — | 4 | — | — | — | — |
Pickled Walnuts | _ | 1 | _ | _ | - | - |
Pickles | - | 4 | - | - | - | - |
Port | _ | 3 | _ | _ | - | - |
Rice | - | 2 | - | - | - | - |
Rum | 1 | 1 | 1 | _ | 100.0 | - |
Sago | _ | 2 | _ | _ | _ | _ |
Salad Cream | _ | 2 | _ | - | _ | _ |
Sauce | _ | 1 | _ | _ | _ | _ |
Sausages | 14 | — | 1 | — | 7.14 | _ |
Seidlitz Powder | - | 5 | - | - | - | - |
Self-Raising Flour | _ | 1 | _ | - | - | - |
Semolina | — | 2 | — | — | — | _ |
Shredded Suet | — | 1 | — | — | — | — |
Shredded Suet with Flour | — | 1 | — | 1 | — | 100.00 |
Skimmed Condensed Milk, Sweetened | _ | 9 | _ | - | _ | _ |
Smoked Salmon | _ | 1 | _ | _ | _ | _ |
Sponge Cakes | — | 2 | — | — | — | — |
Stout | — | 1 | — | — | — | — |
Sugar | — | 3 | — | — | — | -_ |
Sulphur Ointment | — | 1 | — | — | — | — |
Sweets | _ | 2 | _ | _ | _ | - |
Tapioca | — | 1 2 | — | — | — | — |