London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

View report page

St Pancras 1931

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

This page requires JavaScript

(c)—FOOD AND DRUGS (ADULTERATION) ACT, 1928. 800 samples have been taken under this Act, of which 466 were formal and 334 informal. Of the formal, 452 proved to be genuine, and 14, or 3.0 per cent., adulterated; and of the informal, 309 were genuine and 25, or 7.5 per cent., adulterated.

Articles of food of which samples have been taken.Total number of samples.Genuine.Adulterated.
FormalInformalFormalInformalFormalInformal
Arrowrcot—1—1——
Bacon_10__10_—
Beans (baked)_1_1__
(canned)—1_1__
Beef (minced)—6_6__
Brawn_2_2__
Bread and Butter_1_1__
Brimstone and Treacle_1_1_—
Bristling (canned)—1_1__
Butter10741073_1
Cascara Extract_1__1__
,, Tablets_1_1__
Cheese_7_7_
Cod Liver Oil_1_1__
Coffee5353__
Crab (canned)_2_2_—
Cream_19_19__
„ (bottle 1)—1—1——
,, (canned)—8—8——
,, Horn_1_1__
Dripping_3_3__
Fish Paste_6_6__
,, (canned)—1—1__
Flour (self raising)104104—_
Fruit (bottled)—1—1__
„ (canned)—2—2__
„ (preserved)—2—2__
Ginger (ground)113—1112
Gregory's Powder—1—1——
Herrings in Tomatoes (canned)—1—1——
Honey—2—2——
Jam43032119
Jelly Cream_1—1__
Lard8282_—
Lemonade Powder_2—2—_
Lemon Cheese_1—1__
„ Curd_1—1—_
,, Juice—1—1——
Licquorice Powder comp.—1—1—_
Margarine2323——
Marmalade_2—1—1
Meat Paste_1—1——
„ Pie—3—3—_
Milk32093108101
„ (condensed)—22—22——
„ (dried)—1—1——
Minced Meat_1—1_—
Mustard—2—2——
Orange Curd—1—1——
Peas (bottled)—1—1——
„ (oanned)113112—1
„ (dried)—2—2——
Peel (mixed)—1—1——
Carried forward4582094461941215