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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
Paddington 1949
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington, Metropolitan Borough of]
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RODENT CONTROL.—The same procedure was followed as outlined in my Report for 1948. Two sewer treatments
were undertaken, as were also a number of minor "block" schemes. In addition 347 individual complaints were
received and dealt with.
SHOPS ACTS.—1,394 visits were paid by the two Shops Acts Inspectors. No notices were served, all contraventions
of the Acts being dealt with informally.
| Number Examined | Number Adulterated | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Formal | Informal | Formal | Informal | |
| Aspirin | - | 4 | - | - |
| Bacon | - | 10 | - | - |
| Baking powder | - | 6 | - | - |
| Bicarbonate of soda | - | 1 | - | - |
| Biscuits | - | 1 | - | - |
| Black pudding | - | 3 | - | - |
| Brawn, canned | - | 1 | - | - |
| Bread | - | 5 | - | - |
| Butter | - | 11 | - | - |
| Cake mixture | - | 1 | - | - |
| Cakes | - | 12 | - | - |
| Camphorated oil | - | 4 | - | - |
| Capers | - | 1 | - | - |
| Cheese | - | 11 | - | - |
| Chocolate spread | - | 1 | - | - |
| Cocoa | - | 2 | - | - |
| Coffee | - | 8 | - | - |
| Coffee and chicory essence | - | 5 | - | - |
| Cooking fats | - | 9 | - | - |
| Cooking fats, sweetened | - | 7 | - | - |
| Cooking oil | - | 1 | - | - |
| Cough mixture | - | 6 | - | - |
| Cream salad | - | 3 | - | - |
| Curry powder | - | 3 | - | - |
| Custard powder | - | 8 | - | - |
| Dessert powder | - | 1 | - | - |
| Digestive mints | - | 1 | - | - |
| Epsom salts | - | 3 | - | - |
| Faggots | - | 1 | - | - |
| Fish canned | - | 21 | - | - |
| Fish cakes | - | 1 | - | - |
| Fish cakes, canned | - | 3 | - | - |
| Fish paste | - | 11 | - | - |
| Fish pickled | - | 2 | - | - |
| Flavouring essence | - | 8 | - | - |
| Flavourings | - | 1 | - | - |
| Flour | - | 3 | - | - |
| Food tonic | - | 1 | - | - |
| Fruit, canned | - | 1 | - | - |
| Fruit juice, canned | - | 4 | - | - |
| Fruit pie | - | 2 | - | - |
| Fruit puree canned | - | 3 | - | - |
| Gelatine | — | 2 | - | - |
| Glycerine | - | 1 | - | - |
| Ground ginger | - | 2 | - | - |
| Halibut liver oil | - | 1 | - | - |