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 Dagenham]
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Food and Drugs - Sampling (continued)
Article | Number Examined | Number Adulterated | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
Formal | Informal | Formal | Informal | |
Meat, Tinned | - | 1 | - | - |
Medicinal Samples | - | 3 | - | - |
Margarine | - | 1 | - | - |
Meat | - | 1 | - | - |
Meat, Minced | 1 | - | 1 | - |
Milk | 12 | - | - | - |
Milk, Tinned | - | 1 | - | - |
Mousse | - | 1 | - | - |
Oil | - | 1 | - | - |
Pastes | - | 1 | - | - |
Pies | - | 3 | - | 3 |
Pie Fillings | - | 5 | - | 1 |
Potato Puffs | - | 1 | - | - |
Sauces | - | 1 | - | - |
Sausages | - | 10 | - | 1 |
Spaghetti | - | 2 | - | - |
Spices | - | 3 | - | - |
Spreads | - | 1 | - | 1 |
Stock Tablets | - | 1 | - | - |
Sweets | - | 4 | - | 1 |
Syrup | - | 2 | - | - |
Tea | 1 | 2 | - | - |
Vegetables, Tinned | - | 8 | - | - |
Wines and Spirits | 20 | 5 | 2 | 1 |
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Serial No. | Article | Formal or Informal | Nature of Adulteration or Irregularity | Observations |
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1348A | Cake | Informal | Was in a mouldy condition | Retailer and Manufacturer warned |
1353A | Bread | Informal | Contained foreign matter in the form of charred dough containing traces of iron | Manufacturer warned |
1354A | Bread | Informal | Was in a mouldy condition | Manufacturer warned |
1385A | Bread | Informal | Contained discoloured dough caused by incorporation of charred dough | Manufacturer warned |
1356A | Bread Roll | Informal | Contained the meso- and metathoracic segments of a female cockroach, Blatta Orientalis | Manufacturer warned. (Witness would not attend court.) |