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 Orpington]
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Description of Samples | Number of Samples Submitted | Number Genuine | Number not Genuine |
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Flour | 1 | 1 | — |
Game Paste | 1 | 1 | — |
Gravy Powder | 1 | 1 | — |
Iodine, Tincture of | 2 | 2 | — |
Jam | 2 | 2 | — |
Lard | 3 | 3 | — |
Lardex | 1 | 1 | — |
Margarine | 4 | 4 | — |
Meat Paste | 2 | 2 | — |
Minced Meat | 1 | 1 | — |
Milk, Condensed | 3 | 3 | — |
Mint Sauce | 2 | 2 | — |
Mustard | 1 | 1 | — |
Oatmeal | 1 | 1 | – |
Oats, Rolled | 1 | 1 | — |
Ointment, Boracic | 4 | 4 | — |
Ointment, Sulphur | 2 | 2 | — |
Ointment, Zinc | 4 | 4 | — |
Pepper | 3 | 3 | — |
Pearl Barley | 1 | 1 | — |
Peas, Tinned | 1 | 1 | — |
Pickle | 1 | 1 | — |
Pills, Iron | 1 | 1 | — |
Pudding Powder | 1 | 1 | — |
Rice | 1 | 1 | — |
Salad Cream | 1 | 1 | — |
Sauce | 1 | 1 | — |
Sausages, Beef | 4 | 3 | 1 |
Sausages, Pork | 10 | 8 | 2 |
Sausage Meat | 1 | 1 | — |
Soup, Tinned | 2 | 2 | — |
Sild, Tinned | 2 | 2 | — |
Suet | 6 | 6 | — |
Sugar | 1 | 1 | — |
Table Jelly | 1 | 1 | — |
Tea | 2 | 2 | — |
Vaseline | 1 | 1 | — |
Vinegar, Malt | 3 | 3 | — |
TOTALS | 104 | 101 | 3 |
ACTION TAKEN REGARDING SAMPLES REPORTED TO BE
NOT GENUINE
No. of Sample | Description of Sample | Nature of Adulteration | Action taken |
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55 | Pork Sausages | Contained sulphur dioxide to the extent of 147.2 parts per million | Formal sample taken (Proved satisfactory) |
64 | New Milk | Deficient in fat to the extent of 23.6% | Warning letter |
88 | Pork Sausages | Contained sulphur dioxide to the extent of 512.0 parts per million | Formal sample taken (Proved satisfactory) |
104 | Beef Sausages | Contained sulphur dioxide to the extent of 307.2 parts per million | Formal sample taken (Proved satisfactory) |