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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
Chislehurst 1950
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Chislehurst]
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During the year a total of 178 samples of food and drugs were taken, the results being as follows: —
| Articles. | Formal. | Informal. |
|---|---|---|
| Apple conserve | 1 | 1 |
| Baking powder | 5 | 1 |
| Biscuit | — | 1 |
| Black pudding | 1 | — |
| Brawn | 1 | — |
| Bread, butter and cheese | — | 1 |
| Butter | — | 1 |
| Butter mints | 1 | — |
| Butter scotch | 1 | — |
| Candy scotch | 1 1 | — |
| Caraway seeds | — | |
| Catarrh lozenges | 1 | — |
| Coffee | — | 1 |
| Coffee and Chicory Essence | 2 | ! |
| Cough linctus | — | 1 |
| Cough mixture | 1 | — |
| Custard powder | 1 | — |
| Crab paste | 1 | — |
| Doughnuts | 1 | 1 |
| Fish paste with tomato | 3 | 1 |
| Fish Cakes | 1 | — |
| Ginger, crystalised | 1 | — |
| Golden raising powder | 1 | — |
| Honey | 5 | — |
| Horseradish sauce | 1 | — |
| Ice cream | — | 6 |
| Iodised throat lozenges | — | 1 |
| Jam | 2 | — |
| Lemon curd | 5 | 1 |
| Lemonade powder | 1 | — |
| Lung syrup | 1 | — |
| Lung tonic | 1 | — |
| Macaroni | 1 | — |
| Meat Pies | 2 | 31 |
| Milk | 9 | |
| Milk, condensed | — | 1 |
| Nutmeg, ground | — | 1 |
| Oranges, tinned | — | 1 |
| Pastry Mix | 1 | — |
| Peas, dried | 1 | — |
| Peanut butter | — | 1 |
| Peppermints | 1 | — |
| Pepper flavoured compound | 1 | — |
| Pickles | 1 | — |
| Pineapple, crystalised | 1 | — |
| Pork brawn | 1 | — |
| Rum and butter sweets | 1 | — |
| Sage and onion stuffing | 1 | — |
| Salad cream | 2 | — |
| Sausages, beef | 28 | 2 |
| Sausage, luncheon | 1 | — |