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Acton 1954
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Acton]
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43
FOOD AND DRUGS
The Middlesex County Council are the Food and Drugs
Authority in this area, and the Chief Officer of the Public Control
Department has supplied the following figures and notes:—
List of samples procured in
the Borough of Acton during the year.
| Article | Total samples procured | Unsatisfactory |
|---|---|---|
| Milk (various) | 87 | — |
| Milk (new) | 102 | 3 |
| Arrowroot | 2 | — |
| Cakes | 11 | — |
| Cheese ___ | 1 | — |
| Coconut ____ | 1 | — |
| Coffee _ | 2 | — |
| Cooked Meats | 23 | — |
| Cream | 6 | — |
| Drugs | 23 | — |
| Fruit Drinks & Squash | 7 | — |
| Fish | 19 | 1 |
| Fish Cake ___ | 1 | — |
| Ice Cream | 16 | — |
| Jam | 1 | — |
| Liver | 6 | 2 |
| Marzipan | 2 | — |
| Meat Paste | 1 | — |
| Meat Pie | 4 | — |
| Minced Meat | 2 | — |
| Mustard | 1 | — |
| Oranges | 4 | — |
| Peanut Butter | 1 | — |
| Pepper | 1 | — |
| Piccalilli | 1 | — |
| Sausages | 14 | — |
| Sausage Meat | 4 | — |
| Self Raising Flour | 1 | — |
| Suet ___ | 3 | — |
| Sweets | _ 3 | — |
| Tea Tablets | _ 1 | — |
| Tomato Ketchup | 1 | — |
| Vinegar | 12 | 2 |
| Wafers __ | 1 | — |
| Wines & Spirits | 11 | — |
| 376 | 8 |