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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
Enfield 1954
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Enfield]
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FOOD AND DRUGS ACT, 1938
The following table gives details of the samples procured under the above Act in Enfield by the Food and Drugs Authority during 1954 :—
| Article. | Total samples procured. | Unsatisfactory. |
|---|---|---|
| Milk (various) | 228 | 24 |
| Cakes | 47 | — |
| Cooked meat | 21 | 1 |
| Cream | 9 | — |
| Drugs | 6 | 1 |
| Fish | 15 | — |
| Fish Cake | 2 | — |
| Flavoured Milk | 3 | 1 |
| Fruit drink | 1 | — |
| Fruit Juice | 2 | — |
| Fruit Syrup | 1 | — |
| Grape fruit | 1 | — |
| Herrings in Wine Sauce | 1 | 1 |
| Ice cream | 6 | — |
| Iced lolly | 4 | 1 |
| Icing sugar | 1 | — |
| Jams | 2 | — |
| Jelly | 2 | — |
| Lard | 3 | — |
| Liver | 3 | — |
| Margarine | 3 | — |
| Marzipan | 1 | — |
| Meat | 4 | — |
| Meat paste | 1 | — |
| Meat Pies | 9 | — |
| Minced Meat | 8 | — |
| Mincemeat | 1 | — |
| Non-brewed Condiment | 1 | — |
| Oranges | 11 | — |
| Sausages | 24 | — |
| Soup | 1 | — |
| Sweets | 2 | — |
| Tinned Fruit | 1 | — |
| Tomato Ketchup | 1 | — |
| Victoria Plums | 1 | — |
| Vinegar | 46 | 13 |
| Wines and Spirits | 23 | — |
| Totals: | 496 | 42 |