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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Article. | Samples taken Formal. Informal. | Result | Remarks | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Genuine | Inferior. | Adulterated | ||||
Flour, Self- Raising | — | 2 | 2 | — | — | See (d) |
Ground Nut Oil | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | |
Horseradish | — | 2 | 2 | — | — | |
Jam, Strawberry | — | 1 | — | 1 | — | |
Margarine | — | 5 | 5 | — | — | See (e) |
Milk | — | 68 | 68 | — | — | |
Milk, Evaporated | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | |
Olive Oil | — | 2 | 2 | — | — | |
Orange Drink | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | |
Orange Squash | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | |
Paste, Fish | — | 13 | 13 | — | — | |
Paste, Meat | — | 14 | 14 | — | — | |
Quinine | — | 2 | 2 | — | — | |
Raising Powder | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | |
Salad Cream | — | 2 | 2 | — | — | |
Sauce ,. | — | 5 | 5 | — | — | |
Sausages, Pork | — | 10 | 10 | — | — | |
Sausages, Beef | — | 9 | 8 | 1 | — | |
Sausage Meat, Beef | — | 2 | 2 | — | — | |
Soup | — | 3 | 3 | — | — | |
Suet, Beef | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | |
Tomatoes, tinned | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | |
Vinegar | — | 5 | 5 | — | — | |
— | 195 | 190 | 3 | 2 | ||
— | — | — | — |
Details of unsatisfactory samples:
Sample. Analyst's Report. Action Taken.
(a) Bridge Roll Adulterated. Contained A full investigation was
fragments of a smoked made. Smoking is strictly
cigarette. prohibited in bakery
cerned, and the manner in
which the fragments came
to be in the roll was
doubtful. A strict warning
was issued.
(b) Buttered Brazils. Adulterated. In coating- After consultation by the
Fat 6.45% (including Council's Analyst and the
1.9% butter fat). Butter manufacturers, it was
fat should be 4%. ascertained that recipe
was mathematically correct,
but an uneven distribution
of fat in total
mix was caused by wrong
method of adding fats.