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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 Pancras 1922

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, Metropolitan Borough]

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Table: Of these 13 were wrongly dispensed as follows:—

Of these 13 were wrongly dispensed as follows:—

Date.Prescription.Defect.
September 22ndM. Pot. Bromid.Deficient in Potassium Bromide, 18.3 per cent.
DittoDittoDitto 48.8 per cent.
October 17thDittoDitto 83.6 per cent.
DittoUng. Flav.Deficient in Hyd. Ox. Flav., 33 per cent.
DittoM. Quinin.Deficient in Quin. Sulph., 22 per cent.
DittoDittoDitto 26 per cent.
DittoPot. Bromid.Deficient in Potassium Bromide, 35.4 per cent.
October 18thM. Pot. Bromid.Ditto 14.7 per cent.
October 24thM. Quinin.Deficient in Quin. Sulph., 20.5 per cent.
DittoDittoDitto 82 per cent.
November 1stPot. Bromid.Deficient in Potassium Bromide, 10.3 per cent.
DittoDittoDitto 57 per cent.
DittoDittoDitto 22 per cent.

Table: Further prescriptions were presented to the chemists who had dispensed the above-mentioned faulty medicines and dealt with formally under the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts. Of these 5 were wrongly dispensed, as follows:—

Further prescriptions were presented to the chemists who had dispensed the above-mentioned faulty medicines and dealt with formally under the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts. Of these 5 were wrongly dispensed, as follows:—

Date.Prescription.Defect.
November 21stM. Quinin.Deficient in Quinine Sulphate, 72 per cent.
DittoM. Pot. Bromid.Deficient in Potassium Bromide, 14 per cent.
DittoDittoExcess of Potassium Bromide, 44 per cent.
DittoM. Quinin.Deficient in Quinine Sulphate, 47 per cent.
DittoM. Pot. Bromid.Deficient in Potassium Bromide, 12.9 per cent.

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The results of proceedings in the latter five cases will be found in the table on the next page.