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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
St George (Westminster) 1878
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hanover Square, The Vestry of the Parish of Saint George]
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flour and turmeric, generally in small quantities. Such
should be sold as "mustard meal," or by some other name
indicating that they are mixtures.
The adulterated peppers contained rice flour, and a small
percentage of sand, no doubt from the use of dusty peppercorns.
The small proportion of adulterated articles, many of
which were very slightly adulterated, shows the great
amount of good that has been effected by the carrying
out of the Acts passed for the purpose of preventing
adulteration.
W. H. CORFIELD,
Public Analyst.