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 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 | — |