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 Stoke Newington, The Metropolitan Borough]
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ANALYSES PERFORMED DURING THE YEAR 1931.
Articles submitted for Analysis. | No. of Genuine Samples. (174). | No. of Adulterated Samples. (2). | Remarks as to Adulteration. |
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Aspirin | 1 | – | |
Beef, Corned | 1 | – | |
Minced | 1 | – | |
,, Pressed | 2 | – | |
Beer | 3 | – | |
Biscuits, broken | 1 | – | |
Borax | 1 | – | |
Boric Acid Ointment | 2 | – | |
Butter | 15 | – | |
Cakes, Fairy | 1 | – | |
Camphorated Oil | 4 | – | |
Castor Oil | 1 | – | |
Cheese | o | – | |
Cocoa | 1 | – | |
Cod Liver Oil | 1 | – | |
Coffee, Extract | 1 | – | |
Ground | 2 | – | |
Corn Flour | 1 | – | |
Cough Mixture | 1 | – | |
Cream | 5 | – | |
Cream of Tartar | 1 | – | |
Custard Powder | 1 | – | |
Dried Fruit | 1 | – | |
Dripping | I | – | |
Flour | 1 | – | |
Friar's Balsam | 1 | – | |
Gall & Opium Ointment | 1 | – | |
Green Peas (Tinned) | 1 | – | |
Ham | I | – | |
Honey | 1 | – | |
Jam | 1 | – | |
Lemonade Powder | 1 | – | |
Liniment of Turpentine | 1 | – | |
Malt & Cod Liver Oil | 2 | – | |
Margarine | 9 | – | (l). 3% deficient in fat. (Vendor cautioned). |
Meat Pies | 1 | – | |
Milk | 66 | 2 | (2). 1.5% added water. Case dismissed on pay-^ ment of £3.35. 0d. costs. |
Condensed | 5 | – | |
Mustard | 1 | – | |
Pepper | 1 | – | |
Pickle | – | ||
Precipitate Ointment | 2 | – | |
Prescription | 2 | – | |
Rhubarb Powder | 1 | – | |
Kice | 1 | – | |
,, Ground | 1 | – | |
Sausages, Perk | 2 | – | |
Scones | I | – | |
Sugar | 6 | – | |
Sulphur Ointment . . | 1 | – | |
Sweets | 2 | – | |
Tea | 3 | – | |
Tomato Sauce | 1 | – | |
Treacle | 1 | – | |
Vinegar | 2 | – | |
Whiskey | 1 | – | |
Zinc Ointment | 1 | – |