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 Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]
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Sample No. | Nature of Sample | Report |
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6512 | Fried chips | Incipient rancidity of fat |
6521 | Evaporated fruit salad | Labelling irregularity: ingredients listed in wrong order |
6525 | Almond marzipan | Slight deficiency of almond |
6527 | Almond marzipan icing | Slight deficiency of almond |
6534* | Sterilised milk | Consisted of 10% milk with extraneous water |
6553* | Jam Sponge | Found to contain mouse excreta |
6556 | Prime beef steak in rich gravy, canned | Deficient in meat content |
6560 | Spiced mixed vegetables | Labelling irregularity: ingredients listed in wrong order |
6567 | Condensed full cream milk, sweetened | Deficiency in total milk solids |
6568 | Casserole meat with vegetables and gravy, canned | Deficient in meat content |
6571 | Milk | Contained extraneous water |
6573* | Baked beans | Mould growth found |
6590 | Sliced beef in jelly | Deficient in meat content |
6594* | Calpol elixir | Found to contain splinter of wood |
6595* | Demerara sugar | Found to contain rodent excrement |
6596 | Milk food with non-milk fat | Deficiency of fat |
6597 | Chunky steak with carrots in rich gravy | Deficient in meat content |
6609* | Apple turnover | Found to contain the vertebra of a bird |
6629 | Steak and kidney pudding | Deficient in kidney |
6632* | Bottle of milk | Found to contain the larvae of fruit flies |
6652* | Chocolate mousse | Found to contain a piece of plastic wrapping |
6653* | Fresh cream chocolate eclairs | Sourness of cream confirmed |
6665 | Truffled pork liver pate | Deficient in meat content |
6666 | Evaporated fruit salad | Labelling irregularity: ingredients listed in wrong order |
6667 | Almond marzipan | Slight deficiency of almond |
6687* | White bread | Found to contain brown dough infested with insect larvae |
6708* | Currant bun | Found to contain mouse excreta |
6726* | White bread | Contained dark patches made up of dirt and grease from machinery |
6730 | Ice-cream | Deficient in milk solids |
6738 | Cod roes | Contained foreign matter including a small fly |
6767 | Crabeye beans | Insect infestation |
6777 | Ice-cream | Deficient in milk solids not fat |