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 Acton]
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Article. | Taken. | Adulterated. |
---|---|---|
Milk | 153 | 4 |
Aspirin | 1 | — |
Banana Slab | 1 | — |
Bicarbonate of Soda | 1 | — |
Black Pepper | 1 | — |
Boracic Ointment | 1 | — |
Brimstone and Treacle | 1 | — |
Browning | 1 | — |
Coffee | 1 | — |
Coffee and Chicory Essence | 1 | — |
Curry | 1 | — |
Fish Paste | 1 | — |
Gin | 8 | — |
Jam | 1 | — |
Marmalade | 1 | — |
Mayonnaise | 1 | — |
Meat Paste | 1 | — |
Meat Savouries | 1 | — |
Meats, cooked | 2 | — |
Mixed Spice | 1 | — |
Mustard | l | — |
Pimento | 1 | — |
Rum | 2 | — |
Salad dressing | 1 | — |
Sausages | 7 | — |
Sausages, cooked | 9 | — |
Sausage meat | 7 | — |
Vinegar (non brewed) | 1 | — |
Whiskoda | 1 | — |
Whisky | 7 | — |
Zinc and Castor Oil Cream | 1 | — |
218 | 4 |
On the, adulterated samples of milk, one contained 10% of
added water for which legal proceedings were instituted and the
defendant fined £5 with 15/- costs, one was 12% deficient in fat
for which an official caution was issued, and no action was taken
in respect of the other two samples which contained added water
to the extent of 2% and 2.8% respectively.