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, 1930.
The number of samples taken under the Food and Drugs (Adulteration) Act and submitted for analysis, was 1,103 : an increase as compared with the samples for 1929, the number for that year being 1,040. A complete list is as follows :—
ANALYSES | |||||||||
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No. | Article | Number Examined | Number Adulterated, etc. | ||||||
Formal | Informal | Private | Total | Formal | Informal | Private | Total | ||
1 | Arrowroot | – | 3 | _ | 3 | ||||
2 | Black Treacle | – | 6 | – | 6 | 6 | 6 | ||
3 | Brandy | – | 1 | – | 1 | ||||
4 | Butter | 23 | 140 | 1 | 164 | 1 | 1 | ||
5 | „ and Roll | – | 5 | – | 5 | ||||
6 | Cheese | – | 40 | – | 40 | ||||
7 | „ Creain | – | 2 | – | 2 | ||||
8 | Chewing Gum | – | 1 | – | 1 | ||||
9 | Cocoa | – | 17 | – | 17 | ||||
10 | Coffee | – | 71 | – | 71 | ||||
11 | Cream | 24 | – | – | 24 | ||||
12 | „ Bun | – | 1 | – | 1 | ||||
13 | „ Eclair | – | 1 | – | 1 | ||||
14 | „ Tinued | – | 8 | – | 8 | ||||
15 | Currants | – | 11 | – | 11 | ||||
16 | Distilled Water | – | 2 | – | 2 | ||||
17 | Dripping | – | 12 | – | 12 | ||||
18 | Eggs | – | 1 | – | 1 | ||||
19 | Egg Powder | – | 2 | – | 2 | ||||
20 | Flour | – | 1 | – | 1 | ||||
21 | „ Self-Raising | – | 3 | 3 | |||||
22 | Glace Cherries | – | 3 | – | 3 | ||||
23 | Glucose | – | 3 | – | 3 | ||||
24 | Honey | – | 8 | – | 8 | ||||
25 | Jam | – | 35 | – | 35 | ||||
26 | Laid | – | 83 | – | 83 | ||||
27 | Lemonade Powder | – | 15 | – | 15 | ||||
28 | Margarine | – | 8 | – | 8 | ||||
29 | Marmalade | – | 17 | _ | 17 | ||||
30 | Milk | 222 | 44 | – | 266 | 3 | 3 | ||
31 | „ Condensed | – | 20 | – | 20 | ||||
32 | Mincemeat | – | 2 | _ | 2 | ||||
33 | Mustard | – | 23 | – | 23 | ||||
34 | „ Pickles | 3 | – | 3 | |||||
35 | Oatmeal .. | – | 3 | – | 3 | ||||
36 | Ointment, Boric | – | 23 | – | 23 | ||||
37 | „ Sulphur | – | 6 | – | 6 | ||||
38 | „ Zinc | – | 9 | – | 9 | ||||
39 | Olive Oil | – | 6 | – | 6 | ||||
40 | Paste, Fish | – | 13 | – | 13 | ||||
41 | „ Meat | – | 9 | – | 9 | ||||
42 | Peas, Tinned | – | 4 | – | 4 | ||||
43 | Pepper | – | 7 | – | 7 | ||||
44 | Pickles | – | 2 | – | 2 | ||||
45 | Phosphoric Quinine | – | 1 | – | 1 | ||||
46 | Prunes | – | 2 | – | 2 | * | |||
47 | Raisins | – | 3 | – | 3 | ||||
48 | Rice | – | 4 | – | 4 | ||||
49 | Rum | – | 5 | – | 5 | 3 | 3 | ||
Carried forward | 269 | 689 | 1 | 959 | 3 | 9 | 1 | 13 |