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 Beckenham]
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Food and Drugs Sampling
Two hundred and five samples of food and drugs were submitted to the Public Analyst. Details are appended:—
Article | Formal | Informal |
---|---|---|
Almonds (Ground) | 7 | 1 |
Almond and Brazil Fudge | — | 1 |
Almond Extract | — | 1 |
Blackcurrant Glucose Vitamin "C" Health Drink | — | 1 |
Blackcurrant Health Drink | — | 1 |
Blackcurrants in Heavy Syrup | — | 1 |
Brawn (Pork) | — | 1 |
Butter Mints | — | 1 |
Butter (Peanut) | — | 1 |
Buttered Assortment | — | 1 |
Cheese Spread | — | 1 |
Cherry Bark and Blackcurrant Linctus | — | 1 |
Chicken | — | 3 |
Chocolate Flavoured Drink | — | 1 |
Cinnamon | — | 1 |
Coffee | — | 2 |
Compound Syrup of White Pine with Tar | — | 1 |
Cranberry Sauce | — | 1 |
Cream | — | 3 |
Cream (Sterilised) | — | 1 |
Glace Cherries | — | 1 |
Herring Tidbits in Wine Sauce | — | 1 |
Honey | — | 2 |
Ice Cream | — | 17 |
Jam | — | 4 |
Jelly with Port Wine | — | 1 |
Lemon Flavoured Linctus | — | 1 |
Lemon Squash | — | 1 |
Luncheon Meat | — | 5 |
Margarine | — | 1 |
Marmalade | — | 1 |
Marzipan | — | 1 |
Milk (Pasteurised) | 53 | 6 |
Milk (Sterilised) | 18 | — |
Milk (T.T.) | 6 | — |
Milk Chocolate Rum Truffles | — | 1 |
Minced Chicken in Jelly | — | 3 |
Orange | — | 1 |
Orange Squ ash | — | 5 |
Pancake M 'xture | — | 2 |
Peas | — | 2 |
Pilchards in Tomato Sauce | — | 3 |
Pork and Meat Roll | — | 1 |
Pork Roll | — | 1 |
Potted Salmon with Butter | — | 1 |
Rice Pudding | — | 3 |
Salmon (Pink) | — | 2 |
Salmon Spread with Butter | — | 1 |
Sauce (Rum) | — | 1 |
Sausages (Pork) | 12 | — |
Smokers Cough Pastilles | — | 1 |
Steak (Casseroled) | — | 1 |
Stewed Steak | — | 4 |
Strawberries in Heavy Syrup | — | 2 |
Syrup | — | 2 |
Tomato Ketchup | — | 1 |
Vinegar | — | 4 |
No instances of adulteration were found.
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