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 Coulsdon]
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FOOD AND DRUGS ACT, 1955.
The following samples were taken during 1957 and submitted to the Public Analyst, with the results shown -
Article. | Analysed | Non-Genuine | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Formal | Informal | Total | Formal | Informal | Total. | |
Aspirin | 3 | - | 3 | - | - | - |
Almonds, Ground | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - |
Baking Powder | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - |
Bread | 2 | - | 2 | - | - | - |
Broad, Buttered | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - | - |
Butter | 2 | - | 2 | - | - | - |
Boracic Ointment | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | |
Beer | 2 | - | 2 | - | - | |
Biscuits | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - |
Cloves | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - |
Confectionery | 6 | 1 | 7 | - | - | - |
Cordial | 2 | 1 | 3 | - | - | |
Coffee, Ground | 2 | - | 2 | - | - | - |
Cream | 2 | - | 2 | - | - | - |
Crab, Dressed | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - |
Cake | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - |
Cake Decorations | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - |
Cheese | 2 | - | 2 | - | - | - |
Cheese Spread | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | - | 1 |
Fruit, Dried | 2 | - | 2 | - | - | |
Fruit, Tinned | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - |
Fruit, Loaf | 2 | - | 2 | - | - | - |
Fish Cakes | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - |
Fish Paste | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | |
Fat,Cooking | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - |
Gluco Juice | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | — | 1 |
Horseradish Sauce | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | |
Icing Sugar | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - |
Ice Cream | 1 | - | 1 | — | - | — |
Ice Cream Powder | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - |
Jelly, Table | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - |
Jelly Fruit Salad | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
Jam | 1 | - | 1 | — | — | |
Lozenges, Throat | 3 | - | 3 | - | - | — |
Lemon Flavouring | 1 | - | 1 | — | — | - |
Lemonade Crystals | 1 | - | 1 | - | — | - |
Milk | 60 | 4 | 64 | - | - | |
Milk, Hot | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 |
Marmalade | 1 | - | 1 | - | — | — |
Meat Paste | 1 | - | 1 | - | — | |
Meat, Minced | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - |
Meringues | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
Marzipan | 1 | - | 1 | - | — | — |
Onion Salt | l | - | 1 | - | - | |
Pep-Up Tablets | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | |
Peas, Tinned | 1 | - | 1 | - | — | — |
Pepper, Cayenne | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | |
Paraffin, Liquid | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - |
Pudding Mixture | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - |
Pasties | 1 | - | 1 | - | ||
Peel, Mixed | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - |
Peanuts, Salted | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | |
Rice | 2 | 2 | - | - | - | |
Ravioli | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - |
Steak, Tinned | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - |
Steak, Frozen | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | |
Salts, Health | 2 | 2 | - | - | - | |
Sausages, Pork | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | |
Stuffing | - | 1 | 1 | - | — | |
Spam | - | 1 | 1 | — | — | |
C/f | 137 | 10 | 147 | 6 | - | 6 |