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 St. Marylebone, Metropolitan Borough]
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ANNUAL REPORT OF THE PUBLIC ANALYST, 1923.
The number of samples taken under the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts and ubmitted for analysis, was 1,060 : an increase as compared with the samples for 922, the number for that year being 1,040.
A complete list is as follows:
No. | Article. | Genuine. | Adulterated. | Total. |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Barley | 1 | — | 1 |
2 | Basilicon Ointment | 3 | — | 3 |
3 | Bicarbonate of Soda | 2 | — | 2 |
4 | Blanc Mange Powder | 2 | — | 2 |
5 | Boracic Ointment | 11 | — | 11 |
6 | Bovril | 2 | — | 2 |
7 | Brawn | 2 | — | 2 |
8 | Butter | 192 | — | 192 |
9 | Camp Coffee | 1 | — | 1 |
10 | Camphorated Oil | 3 | — | 3 |
11 | Cascara Tablets | 1 | — | 1 |
12 | Cheese | 26 | — | 26 |
13 | Clover Cream | 1 | — | 1 |
14 | Cocoa | 17 | — | 17 |
15 | Cocoa Essence | 1 | — | 1 |
16 | Cod Liver Oil | 3 | — | 3 |
17 | Coffee | 98 | — | 98 |
18 | Compound Mustard | 1 | — | 1 |
19 | Condensed Milk | 20 | — | 20 |
20 | Cooked Meat | 1 | — | 1 |
21 | Cream | 23 | — | 23 |
22 | Cream Dough-nut | 1 | — | 1 |
23 | Currant Jelly | 2 | — | 2 |
24 | Dried Milk | 3 | — | 3 |
25 | Ground Ginger | 1 | — | 1 |
26 | Haricot Verts | 1 | — | 1 |
27 | Ice Cream | 4 | — | 4 |
28 | Jam | 38 | — | 38 |
29 | Jelly | 2 | — | 2 |
30 | Jelly Crystals | 1 | — | 1 |
31 | Liquorice Powder | 3 | — | 3 |
32 | Lard | 29 | — | 29 |
33 | Lemonade Powder | 1 | — | 1 |
34 | Margarine | 52 | — | 52 |
35 | Marmalade | 19 | — | 19 |
36 | Meat Pie | 3 | — | 3 |
37 | Milk | 314 | 7 | 321 |
38 | Mustard | 17 | — | 17 |
39 | O.K. Sauce | 1 | — | 1 |
40 | Olive Oil | 12 | — | 12 |
41 | Orange Wine | 1 | — | 1 |
42 | Peas | 1 | — | 1 |
43 | Pepper | 10 | — | 10 |
44 | Pepsodent (Tooth Paste) | 2 | — | 2 |
45 | Pickles | 1 | — | 1 |
46 | Raisin Wine | 1 | — | 1 |
47 | Sausages | 10 | — | 10 |