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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
Barking 1965
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barking]
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Food and Drugs - Sampling (continued)
| Article | Number Examined | Number Adulterated | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Formal | Informal | Formal | Informal | |
| Bread | _ | 5 | - | 4 |
| Butter | 5 | 2 | - | - |
| Cakes | - | 7 | - | - |
| Cereals | 3 | 3 | - | - |
| Cheese | 1 | 1 | - | - |
| Chicken | - | 4 | - | 2 |
| Chips | - | 1 | - | 1 |
| Cockles and Mussels | - | 2 | - | - |
| Coffee | 2 | - | - | |
| Colouring | - | 1 | - | - |
| Condiments | 5 | if | - | - |
| Confectionery | 1 | 8 | - | - |
| Cordials | if | 10 | 1 | 2 |
| Cream | - | 2 | - | - |
| Desiccated Coconut | 2 | 1 | - | - |
| Essences | - | 7 | - | - |
| Fish - tinned | - | 5 | * | - |
| Flour | 2 | 1 | - | - |
| Fruit-tinned | - | 4 | - | - |
| Fruit - dried | - | 5 | - | - |
| Gelatine | - | 1 | - | - |
| Hamburger | - | 7 | - | - |
| Ice Cream | - | 13 | - | - |
| Ice Lolly | - | 2 | - | 1 |
| jams | 5 | 5 | - | 2 |
| Jellies | - | 7 | - | - |
| Lard | 6 | 1 | - | - |
| Margarine | 5 | 3 | - | - |
| Meat,minced | 1 | 7 | - | - |
| Meat, tinned | - | 5 | - | 2 |
| Medical sample | 2 | 8 | 2 | 1 |
| Milk | 8 | 7 | - | - |
| Milk bottle | - | 1 | - | 1 |
| Oil | 5 | 2 | - | - |
| Paste | - | 4 | - | - |
| Peanuts, salted | - | 1 | - | - |
| Pie Filling | - | 7 | - | 1 |
| Peas | - | 2 | - | - |
| Rice | 1 | 3 | - | - |
| Sauces | - | 3 | - | — |
| Sausages | 51 | 8 | 2 | - |
| Scotch Eggs | - | 1 | - | - |
| Smoked Frogs Legs | - | 1 | - | - |
| Spices | - | 4 | - | - |
| Tea | 9 | 2 | - | - |
| Vegetables, dried | 1 | 1 | - | - |
| Wines and Spirits | 10 | 3 | - | 1 |