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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 1966
[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 | |
| Cereals | 4 | 5 | - | - |
| Cheese | - | 5 | - | - |
| Cockles - cooked | - | 1 | - | - |
| Confectionery | - | 13 | - | 1 |
| Condiments | - | 6 | - | - |
| Cream | - | 7 | - | - |
| Cream-synthetic | - | 1 | - | - |
| custard Powder | - | 4 | - | - |
| Desiccated coconut | - | 2 | - | - |
| Fats | 3 | 7 | - | - |
| Fish - tinned | - | 7 | - | - |
| Flavourings | - | 5 | - | - |
| Flour | 2 | 1 | - | - |
| Fruit - dried | - | 4 | - | - |
| Fruit - fresh | - | 1 | - | - |
| Fruit - tinned | - | 6 | - | 2 |
| Fruit Drinks, Cordials, etc. | 3 | 19 | 1 | 1 |
| Fruit Pies, etc | - | 3 | - | - |
| Gravy | - | 3 | - | - |
| Herbs | - | 1 | - | - |
| Jelly | - | 3 | - | - |
| Ice Cream | - | 7 | - | - |
| Ice cream powder | - | 1 | - | - |
| Ice Lollies | - | 1 | - | - |
| Macaroni in cheese sauce | - | 4 | - | - |
| Meat - tinned | 1 | 11 | - | 2 |
| Meat | - | 10 | - | 2 |
| Medicinal Samples | - | 11 | - | - |
| Milk | 3 | 4 | - | 1 |
| Milk - condensed | - | 1 | - | - |
| Milk - Powder | 1 | - | - | - |
| Milk Pudding - tinned | - | 1 | - | - |
| Nuts | 1 | 3 | 1 | - |
| Pastes | - | 7 | - | - |
| Preserves | 1 | 6 | - | 1 |
| Puddings | - | 6 | - | - |
| Sausages | 8 | 3 | 2 | - |
| Sauces | - | 4 | - | - |
| Soups | - | 3 | - | - |
| Steak and Kidney Pies and | 1 | 4 | - | - |
| Sweets | - | 17 | - | - |
| Sugar | - | 1 | - | - |
| Tomato puree | - | 1 | - | 1 |
| Uncooked Prepared Foods | - | 3 | - | - |
| Vegetables | 1 | 5 | - | 1 |
| Wines and Spirits | 5 | - | - | - |