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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Acton 1949
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Acton]
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FOOD AND DRUGS ACT, 1938.
The Middlesex County Council are the sampling authority in this area, and the Chief Officer of the Public Control Department has supplied the figures appended below of samples taken during the year:—
| Article | Taken | Adulterated |
|---|---|---|
| Milk | 170 | 2 |
| Antipain tablets | 1 | — |
| Aspirin | 1 | — |
| Black pudding | 1 | — |
| Chewing gum | 1 | 1 |
| Coffee and chicory essence | 1 | — |
| Cooked sausage | 4 | — |
| Cream fancies | 7 | — |
| Gelatine | 1 | — |
| Gin | _ | |
| Goats Cheese | 1 | — |
| Haddock smoked | 6 | — |
| Ice-cream | 1 | — |
| Lemon sole | 1 | — |
| Liquorice, menthol and violet pellets | 1 | — |
| Liver sausage | 1 | — |
| Meat paste | 1 | — |
| Meat savouries | 2 | — |
| Meats cooked | _ | |
| Pork sandwich | 2 | _ |
| Rum | 2 | _ |
| Salad Cream | 3 | 1 |
| Sausage and sausage meat | 1 | — |
| Sherbert | 2 | 1 |
| Sulphur tablets | 1 | — |
| Whiskey | 12 | — |
| 233 | 5 |
Two informal samples of milk were deficient in fat but subsequent
follow-up samples were genuine.
A sample of chewing gum was found to contain 95% of
paraffin wax, but it was not possible to take any action under the
Food and Drugs or Merchandise Marks Acts.
No action was taken in the cases of a Salad Cream deficient
in egg yolk solids and Sherbet deficient in sucrose.