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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

Bromley 1969

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bromley]

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Nature of Unsatisfactory SampleRemarks
Serial No. 3243
(o)Bread Composition: Contained a piece of copper wire 1" in length.Legal proceedings. Baker fined £20 with £8 18s. 0d. costs.
Serial No. 3285
(h)Cream Slice Composition: The fat in the "cream" contained no significant amount of butter fat.Slice mistakently placed in the fresh cream display cabinet. Price (6d.) indicated no wilful deception. Now satisfactory.
Serial No. 3389
(h)Cake Composition: A housefly was almost completely embedded in the crumb of the cake, indicating that it had been baked therein as did the absence of phosphatase enzymes.Matter investigated. Warning letter to baker.
Serial No. 3216
(y)Protein Cereal Baby Fo0d Composition: There was evidence of attack by the Confused Flour Beetle— Tribolium Confusum.Matter investigated and drawn to attention of manufacturer.
Serial No. 3306
(u)Straight Drink Composition: The complaint of a faint 0dour of petrol or paraffin was confirmed.Matter investigated. Warning letter to bottlers.
Serial No. 3323
(z)Light Ale Composition: Contained matted fragments of mould growths.Matter investigated. Warning letters to bottlers and vendor.
Serial No. 3371
C)Pea Green Colour Composition: Contained Blue VBS which is no longer a permitted colour.School Meals—old stock. Withdrawn and destroyed.