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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TABLE 37.
Statement of Food and Drugs Analysed
No. | Article. | Number Examined. | Number Adulterated, etc. | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Formal. | Informal. | Private. | Total. | Formal. | Informal. | Private. | Total. | ||
1 | Apricots | — | 1 | — | 1 | ||||
2 | Benger's Food | — | 1 | — | 1 | ||||
3 | Bicarbonate of Soda | — | 8 | — | 8 | ||||
4 | Blaud's Pills | — | 2 | — | 2 | ||||
5 | Boric Ointment | — | 17 | — | 17 | ||||
6 | Butter | 84 | 207 | — | 291 | ||||
7 | Butter and Roll | — | 12 | — | 12 | ||||
8 | Candied Peel | — | 6 | — | 6 | ||||
9 | Cheese | — | 25 | — | 25 | ||||
10 | Cherries, Glace | — | 5 | — | 5 | ||||
11 | Cinnamon Essence | — | 4 | — | 4 | ||||
12 | Cocoa | — | 15 | — | 15 | ||||
13 | Cod Liver Oil | — | 2 | — | 2 | ||||
14 | Coffee | — | 7 | — | 7 | ||||
15 | Crab (Tinned) | — | 1 | — | 1 | ||||
16 | Cream (Loose) | 12 | 2 | — | 14 | ||||
17 | Cream (Tinned) | — | 10 | — | 10 | ||||
18 | Currants | — | 15 | — | 15 | ||||
19 | Dripping | — | 4 | — | 4 | ||||
20 | Fish Paste | — | 8 | — | 8 | ||||
21 | Fruit, Homogenised (Tinned) | — | 1 | — | 1 | ||||
22 | Gin | — | 1 | — | 1 | ||||
23 | Glycerine and Thymol | — | 1 | — | 1 | ||||
24 | Honey | — | 10 | — | 10 | ||||
25 | Iodine, Tincture of | — | 5 | — | 5 | ||||
26 | Jam | — | 41 | — | 41 | ||||
27 | Lard | 1 | 77 | — | 78 | ||||
28 | Margarine | — | 33 | — | 33 | ||||
29 | Marmalade | — | 25 | — | 25 | ||||
30 | Meat Paste | — | 8 | — | 8 | ||||
31 | Milk | 96 | 78 | 1 | 175 | ||||
32 | Milk, Condensed | — | 23 | — | 23 | ||||
33 | Milk, Dried | — | 9 | — | 9 | ||||
34 | Mincemeat | — | 1 | — | 1 | ||||
35 | Mustard | — | 8 | — | 8 | ||||
36 | Mustard, French | — | 3 | — | 3 | ||||
37 | Olive Oil | — | 15 | — | 15 | ||||
38 | Paraffin, Liquid | — | 5 | — | 5 | ||||
39 | Peas (Tinned) | — | 6 | — | 6 | ||||
40 | Pepper | — | 6 | — | 6 | ||||
41 | Pickles | — | 2 | — | 2 | ||||
42 | Raisins | — | 15 | — | 15 | ||||
43 | Rice | — | 8 | — | 8 | ||||
44 | Rice Flour | — | 1 | — | 1 | ||||
45 | Rice Powder | — | 1 | — | 1 | ||||
46 | Salmon (Tinned) | — | 1 | — | 1 | ||||
47 | Sardines | — | 16 | — | 16 | ||||
48 | Sauce | — | 5 | — | 5 | ||||
49 | Sausages, Pork | — | 40 | — | 40 | ||||
50 | Sild | — | 2 | — | 2 | ||||
51 | Sugar | — | 6 | — | 6 | ||||
52 | Sultanas | — | 15 | — | 15 | ||||
53 | Syrup, Golden | — | 3 | — | 3 | ||||
54 | Tea | — | 30 | — | 30 | ||||
55 | Treacle, Black | — | 3 | — | 3 | ||||
56 | Vegetables, Homogenised (Tinned) | — | 1 | — | 1 | ||||
57 | Vermouth | — | 2 | — | 2 | ||||
58 | Vinegar, Malt | — | 6 | — | 6 | ||||
59 | Wine, Raisin | — | 1 | — | 1 | ||||
60 | Witch Hazel | — | 7 | — | 7 | ||||
193 | 873 | 1 | 1,067 | — | — | — | — |