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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Formal | Samples taken | Result | |||
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Informal | Genuine | Inferior | Adulterated | ||
Cooking Fat | — | 2 | 2 | — | — |
Cough Mixture | — | 6 | 6 | — | — |
Creamed Rice Pudding | — | 1 | 1 | — | — |
Custard Powder | — | 1 | 1 | — | — |
Currants | — | 1 | 1 | — | — |
Curry Powder | — | 1 | 1 | — | — |
Digene | — | 1 | 1 | — | — |
Doughnuts | — | 1 | 1 | — | — |
Dripping | — | 1 | 1 | — | — |
Essence of Rennet | — | 1 | 1 | — | — |
Fish Paste | — | 12 | 12 | — | — |
Fynnon Salts | — | 1 | 1 | — | — |
Gin | — | 2 | 2 | — | — |
Gravy Browning | — | 1 | 1 | — | — |
Ice Cream | — | 1 | 1 | — | — |
Lemon Barley and Glucose Drink | 1 | 1 | - | - | |
Lemon Juice | — | 2 | 2 | — | — |
Lemon Squash | — | 1 | — | — | |
Liquid Paraffin | — | 1 | 1 | — | — |
Luncheon Meat | — | 2 | 2 | — | — |
Malt Vinegar | — | 3 | 3 | — | — |
Margarine | — | 4 | 4 | — | — |
Mazda Corn Oil | — | 1 | 1 | — | — |
Meat Paste | — | 14 | 14 | — | — |
Milk of Magnesia | — | 1 | 1 | — | — |
Milk Shake | — | 1 | 1 | — | — |
Milk (Pasteurised) | — | 36 | 36 | — | — |
Milk (Sterilised) | — | 31 | 31 | — | — |
Milk (Tuberculin Tested) | — | 1 | 1 | — | — |
Mincemeat | — | 1 | 1 | — | — |
Mustard | — | 1 | 1 | — | — |
Olive Oil | — | 1 | 1 | — | — |
Orange Squash | — | 2 | 2 | — | — |
Orange Juice | — | 1 | 1 | — | — |
Orange Drink | — | 2 | 2 | — | — |
Pepper | — | 1 | — | — | |
Pickles | — | 2 | 2 | — | — |
Pork Pie | — | 1 | 1 | — | — |
Prunes in Syrup | — | 1 | 1 | — | — |
Quinine | — | 3 | 1 | *2 | — |
Raisins | — | 1 | 1 | — | — |
Rivella | — | 1 | 1 | — | — |
Salad Cream | — | 1 | 1 | — | — |
Sauce | — | 4 | 4 | — | — |
Self-Raising Flour | — | 4 | 4 | — | — |
Sild in Tomato Sauce | — | 1 | 1 | — | — |
Sliced Mushrooms in butter | — | 1 | 1 | — | — |
Soup | — | 6 | 6 | — | — |
Steak and Kidney Pie | — | 4 | 4 | — | — |
Steak Pie | — | 2 | 2 | — | — |
Sulphur Tablets | — | 1 | 1 | — | — |
Sultanas | — | 1 | 1 | — | — |
Syrup of Figs | — | 1 | 1 | — | — |