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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
Hornsey 1952
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hornsey, Borough of]
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FOOD SAMPLING
I have received the following information from Mr. J. A. O'Keefe,
Chief Officer of Public Control of the Middlesex County Council
whose Department is responsible for food sampling in the Borough.
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Food and Drugs Acts, 1938-1950
List of Samples Procured in the Borough of Hornsey during the year 1952.
Total samples
Articles procured Unsatisfactory
Milk (Various) 122 9
Arrowroot 8 —
Baking Powder 1
Cakes (Various) 33
Carraway Seed 1
Coffee 1 —
Cooked Meat 9 —
Cornflour 1
Drugs (Various) 10 —
Fish (Various)12 —
Fish Paste 3 —
Flour 2-
Full Cream Milk 1 -
Fruit Squash 2 —
Gelatine 1 —
Honey 1 —
Jam 1 —
Marmalade 1 —
Meat Pie 4 —
Orange Curd 1 —
Pastry-Mix 1 —
Pepper Substitute 1 —
Raisin Wine (Non-Alcoholic) 1 —
Sausages (Various) 32 —
Sausage Roll 3 —
Soups (Various) 4 —
Spirits (Various) 16 —
Suet
Sweets 1 —
Table Jellies 4 1 —
Victoria Plums (Canned) 2 —
Vinegar 20 9
Yoghurt 1 —
Total 302 20