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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
Marylebone 1926
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Marylebone, Metropolitan Borough]
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| Articles submitted for Analysis. | State whether the sample was submitted to the Analyst by an Officer acting under direction of a Local Authority, under Section 13 of Act, and, if so, the name ot such Authority. | Result of Analysis; showing whether the sample was Genuine or Adulterated, and, if Adulterated, what were the nature and extent of the Adulteration. | The sum paid in respect of tbe Analysis. | Observations. |
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| SECOND QUA RTER ENDING 30TH JUNE, 1920. | ||||
| 60 milk | Food Inspector, St. Marylebone Borough Council | Genuine | 12/6 per sample. | 4 were test samples. No sample contained either preservative or added colouring matter. |
| 56 butter | Do. | Do. | 41 were test samples. Of the 56 samples examined all contained boric acid as a preservative. The amounts ranged from 01% to 035%. | |
| 6 cream | Do. | Do. | 1 was a test sample. | |
| 2 cream tinned | Do. | Genuine. 488 26.5% Nil. Not Preserved. 491 29.7% Nil. Not Preserved. | These were test samples | |
| 17 condensed milk | Do. | Genuine. | All were test samples. | |
| 7 cream cheese | Do. | Do. | ||
| 21 cheese | Do. | Do. | ||
| 5 lemon curd | Do. | Do. | ||
| 1 sugar | Do. | Do. | ||
| 2 demerara sugar | Do. | Do. | ||
| 7 margarine | Do. | Do. | ||
| 12 coffee | Do. | Do. | ||
| 7 marmalade | Do. | Do. | ||
| 11 jam | Do. | Do. | ||
| 2 flour | Do. | Do. | ||
| 2 self raising flour | Do. | Do. | ||
| 7 tea | Do. | Do. | ||
| 7 mustard | Do. | Do. | ||
| 3 pepper | Do. | Do. | ||
| 18 lard | Do. | Do. | ||
| 3 lemonade pdrs. | Do. | Do. | ||
| 1 chicken and ham paste | Do. | Do. | ||
| 1 chicken and tongue paste | Do. | Do. | ||
| 1 salmon and shrimp paste | Do. | Do. | ||
| 1 salmon and anchovy paste | Do. | Do | ||
| 1 lobster paste | Do. | Do. | ||
| 2 camphorated oil | Do. | Do. | ||
| 3 boracic ointment | Do. | Do. | ||
| 3 sulphur ointment | Do. | Do. | ||
| Samples analysed during the Quaiter 269 Samples adulterated Nil. | ||||