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 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 |