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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
Hendon 1956
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hendon]
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| Milk Foods/Beverages | 37 tins |
| Mustard | 3 tins |
| Paste | 2 tins |
| Pepper | 15 tins |
| Pickles | 6 j ars |
| Potato Crisps | 25 pkts. |
| Pudding | 11 tins |
| Pudding Mixture | 10 pkts. |
| Rice | 3 tins & 21 lb. |
| Salad Cream etc. | 42 jars |
| Sauce | 1 bottle |
| Semolina | 4 pkts. (3 lb.) |
| Spaghetti | 4 cartons |
| Spice | 3 cartons |
| Suet | 4 lb, 14 oz. |
| Sugar, Icing | 8 lb. |
| Tapioca | 1 lb. |
| Tea | 103¾ lb. |
FOOD AND DRUGS ACT, 1955.
The Middlesex County Council is the Food and Drugs Authority for the Borough of
Hendon and I am indebted to the Chief Officer of the Public Control Department for
the following report on the work of his Department during the year.
| Article | Total Samples Procured | Unsatisfactory |
|---|---|---|
| Milk, various | 217 | - |
| Milk, new | 6 | - |
| Butter | 44 | - |
| Cakes | 28 | 2 |
| Cheese | 3 | 2 |
| Cooked meats | 10 | - |
| Cream | 54 | - |
| Drugs | 39 | - |
| Fish | 6 | - |
| Fish Products | 12 | - |
| Fruit, fresh | 2 | 2 |
| Fruit, dried | 4 | - |
| Fruit, canned | 2 | - |
| Fruit squash | 12 | - |
| Horseradish | 2 | 2 |
| Ice Cream | 23 | - |
| Jelly | 5 | - |
| Margarine | 35 | - |
| Meat | 39 | - |
| Meat Products | 18 | - |
| Miscellaneous | 12 | 1 |
| Preserves | 5 | - |
| Rice-in-Cream | 2 | - |
| Sausages, etc. | 13 | - |
| Sweets | 9 | 1 |
| Vinegar | 32 | - |
| Wines and Spirits | 9 | - |
| 643 | 10 |