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, 1926.
The number of samples taken under the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts and submitted to analysis, was 1,103; an increase as compared with the samples for 1925. the number for that year being 1,040.
A complete list is as follows :
No. | Article. | Genuine. | Adulterated. | Unfit for Consumption. | Total. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Apples | 49 | __ | _ | 49 |
2 | Beans | 2 | — | — | 2 |
3 | Bicarbonate of Soda 0 | 4 | — | — | 4 |
4 | Boracic Ointment | 6 | — | — | 6 |
5 | Butter | 212 | — | — | 212 |
6 | Camphorated Oil | 4 | — | — | 4 |
7 | Cheese | 84 | — | — | 84 |
8 | Chicken and Ham Paste | 4 | — | — | 4 |
9 | Chicken and Tongue Paste | 1 | — | — | 1 |
10 | Cocoa | 2 | — | — | 2 |
11 | Coffee | 61 | — | — | 61 |
12 | Compound Mustard | 1 | — | — | 1 |
13 | Condensed Milk | 57 | — | — | 57 |
14 | Cream | 25 | — | — | 25 |
15 | Cream Cheese | 24 | — | — | 24 |
16 | Cream Tinned | 5 | — | — | 5 |
17 | Demerara Sugar | 2 | — | — | 2 |
18 | Evaporated Milk | 1 | — | — | 1 |
19 | Fish Paste | 8 | — | — | 8 |
20 | Flour | 2 | — | — | 2 |
21 | Fruit Drops | 1 | — | — | 1 |
22 | Ginger Wine | 2 | 1 | — | 3 |
23 | Gorgonzola Cheese | 7 | — | — | 7 |
24 | Honey | 10 | — | — | 10 |
25 | Iced Cake | 2 | — | — | 2 |
26 | Jam | 55 | — | — | 55 |
27 | Lard | 44 | — | — | 44 |
28 | Lemon Cheese | 5 | — | — | 5 |
29 | Lemon Curd | 8 | — | — | 8 |
30 | Lemonade Powders | 8 | — | — | 3 |
31 | Lobster Paste | 2 | — | — | 2 |
32 | Margarine | 19 | — | — | 19 |
33 | Marmalade | 32 | — | — | 32 |
34 | Meat Paste | 11 | — | — | 11 |
35 | Mercurial Ointment | 1 | — | — | 1 |
36 | Milk | 231 | 2 | — | 233 |
37 | Mincemeat | 1 | — | — | 1 |
38 | Mustard | 21 | — | — | 21 |
39 | Mustard Pickles | 1 | — | — | 1 |
40 | Nut Milk Chocolate | 1 | 1 | ||
41 | Orange Wine | 1 | 1 | — | 2 |
42 | Pepper | 11 | — | — | 11 |
43 | Pickled Onions | 2 | — | — | 2 |
44 | Baisin Wine | 1 | 1 | — | 2 |
45 | Salmon and Anchovy Paste | 2 | — | — | 2 |
46 | Salmon and Shrimp Paste | 2 | — | — | 2 |
47 | Self Haisiug Flour | 2 | — | — | 2 |
48 | Spaghetti | 2 | — | — | 2 |
49 | SpongeCakes | 22 | — | — | 22 |
50 | Sugar | 1 | — | — | 1 |
51 | Sulphur Ointment | 6 | — | — | 6 |
55 | Tea | 20 | — | — | 20 |
56 | Tinned Peas | 1 | — | — | 1 |
57 | Tomato Ketchup | 4 | - | — | 4 |
58 | Turkey and Tongue Paste | 1 | — | — | 1 |
59 | Whisky | 2 | 8 | - | 5 |
60 | Zinc Ointment | 4 | — | — | 4 |
1,094 | 8 | 1 | 1,103 |