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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Articles submitted lor Analysis. | State whether the amp e 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 of 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 the Analysis. | Observations. |
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FOURTH QUARTER ENDING 31ST DECEMBER, 1926. | ||||
49 milk | Food Inspector, St. Marylebone Borough Council. | Genuine. | 12/6 per sample | 12 were test samples. Of the 49 samples taken, no sample contained preservative or added colouring matter. |
49 butter | Do. | Do. | Of the 49 samples examined, 4 were free from any kind of preservative. All the others contained boric acid in amounts which ranged from 0.18% to 0.42%. 45 were test samples. | |
1 cream (tinned) | Do. | Do. | This was a test sample | |
21 condensed milk | Do. | Genuine. | All were test samples. | |
7 cream cheese | Do. | Do. | ||
24 cheese | Do. | Do. | ||
8 honey | Do. | Do. | ||
12 lard | Do. | Do. | ||
2 cocoa | Do. | Do. | ||
20 jam | Do. | Do. | ||
4 coffee | Do. | Do. | ||
6 tea | Do. | Do. | ||
7 marmalade | Do. | Do. | ||
1 compound mustard | Do. | Do. | ||
4 mustard | Do. | Do. | ||
6 margarine | Do. | Do. | ||
3 meat paste | Do. | Do. | ||
3 fish paste | Do. | Do. | ||
1 Scotch whisky | Do. | Do. | ||
22 sponge cakes | Do. | Do. | ||
1 orange wine | Do. | Do. | ||
1 raisin wine | Do. | Do. | ||
4 tomato ketchup | Do. | Do. | ||
2 spaghetti | Do. | Do | ||
2 beans | Do. | Do. | ||
2 pickled onions | Do. | Do. | ||
1 mustard pickles | Do. | Do. | ||
2 ginger wine | Do. | Do. | ||
3 boracic ointment | Do. | Do. | ||
1 Mercurial ointment | Do. | Do. | ||
1 mincemeat | Do. | Do. | ||
2 Iced cake | Private Sample. | Do. | ||
Total number of Samples analysed during the Quarter | 272 | |||
Number of Samples adulterated | Nil |