London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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
City of London 1969
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London, City of ]
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| Article | Informal | Formal | Article | Informal | Formal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apple Fritters | 1 | Meat, canned | 14 | ||
| Bacon | 1 | fresh | 1 | ||
| Beetroot, pickled | 1 | frozen | 2 | ||
| Biscuits | 15 | minced | 10 | ||
| Black Pudding | 1 | pies (pork) | 9 | ||
| Bread | 6 | Puddings & Pies (Steak & Kidney) | 11 | ||
| Bread Crumbs | 1 | ||||
| Butter | 5 | Meat and Potato Pie | 1 | ||
| Cakes & Pastries | 29 | Meat Products | 22 | ||
| Cake Mix | 2 | Meat, prepacked | 5 | ||
| Calcium Drink with vitamin "C" | 1 | Milk, canned | 5 | ||
| fresh | 14 | 20 | |||
| Candied Peel | 2 | dried | 1 | ||
| Cereals | 3 | long life | 2 | ||
| Cheese | 4 | Milo | 1 | ||
| Cheese Nuts | 1 | Milk Puddings | 2 | ||
| Cheese Spread | 2 | Milk Shakes | 1 | ||
| Chestnut Puree | 1 | Mousse | 2 | ||
| Chicken | 1 | Nuts | 1 | ||
| Chicken Portion | 1 | Olives, stuffed | 1 | ||
| Chicken Croquettes | 5 | Onions, Pickled | 1 | ||
| Chicory | 1 | Ovaltine | 1 | ||
| Chocolate, Drinking | 1 | Pasta Shells | 1 | ||
| Chop Suey with Sweet and Sour Sauce | 1 | Pastes & Pates | 9 | ||
| Pease Pudding | 3 | ||||
| Coffee | 2 | Pizza | 3 | ||
| Coffee, Dandelion | 1 | Potato, canned | 2 | ||
| Colslaw | 1 | instant | 1 | ||
| Confectionery | 8 | Rice, packet | 2 | ||
| Condiments | 4 | Rolls | 4 | ||
| Cooking Fat | 1 | Rolls, starch reduced | 1 | ||
| Cornflour | 1 | Sandwiches | 3 | ||
| Cornish Pasties | 6 | Salad, dressing | 3 | ||
| Cream, Dairy | 7 | Russian | 2 | ||
| Curry Paste | 1 | Sauces | 4 | ||
| Custard, canned | 1 | Sausages | 8 | ||
| Faggots | 2 | Sausages, bottled | 1 | ||
| Fish, cakes | 3 | Sausage Meat | 1 | ||
| canned | 6 | Sausage Rolls | 3 | ||
| crab | 1 | Scotch Eggs | 7 | ||
| shell | 2 | Semolina, pkt. | 1 | ||
| Flour, self-raising | 1 | Soups, canned | 2 | ||
| Frankfurters | 3 | Spaghetti, canned | 1 | ||
| Fruit, canned | 4 | Spices and Herbs | 1 | ||
| dried | 2 | Sponge Pudding | 2 | ||
| drinks | 3 | Stuffed Vine Leaves with Rice in Oil | 1 | ||
| fillings | 2 | ||||
| juice | 1 | Sweet Casava | 1 | ||
| prepacked | 5 | Tea | 11 | ||
| pies | 8 | Tea Bags | 1 | ||
| Hamburgers | 1 | Tomatoes | 1 | ||
| Iced Lemon Tea Mix | 1 | Top of the Milk | 1 | ||
| Jam | 2 | Tripe | 1 | ||
| Jelly | 2 | Vegetables, canned | 2 | ||
| Junior Egg Custard with Rice | 1 | dried | 1 | ||
| Vegetable Oil | 1 | ||||
| Lard | 1 | Walnuts, pickled | 1 | ||
| Macaroni | 2 | Whole Kernel Corn | I | ||
| Margarine | 2 | Wines | 2 | ||
| TOTALS | 371 | 20 |