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Penge 1960

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Penge]

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Thirty samples of ice-cream were taken and submitted to the methylene blue
test with the following results:—
Grade 1—27 Grade 2—3
In no case was ice-cream found to be stored at a temperature exceeding
28° Fahrenheit.
Slaughterhouses
There are no slaughterhouses in the district.
Adulteration
Kent County Council Sampling Officers took 121 samples of various foods
and drugs in the district as follows:—
No.
Alimex tablets 1
Almond flavouring 1
Aludrox 1
Baby Cough Linctus 1
Beef extract 1
Beer 2
Blackcurrant Jellies 1
Blackfrutex 1
Bromo Valerian Nerve Sedative
1
Butter Beans 1
Cafolin 1
Cheese 5
Cherry Cough Linctus 1
Cochineal substitute 1
Coffee Berries 1
Coffee and Chicory Essence 1
Cold and Influenza Mixture 1
Custard Powder 1
Daisy Powders 1
Danish Cream 1
Double Devon Cream 3
Dried Mixed Fruit 1
English Cheese 1
Formula 120 Tablets 1
Full Cream Evaporated Milk 1
Garden Peas 1
Gelatine 1
Gin 4
Glycerine 1
Ground Nut Oil 1
Ground White Pepper 1
Honey 1
Irish Stew 1
Jam 3
Kompo 1
c/fd. 47
No.
B/fwd. 47
Lemon and Barley 1
Lemon Squash 1
Linctus Codeine B.P.C. 1
Liquid Apples 1
Malt Vinegar 2
Marmalade 1
Meat Pies 1
Mild Mustard 1
Milk 31
Non-brewed Condiment 1
Oil of Wintergreen 1
Onions 1
Orange Squash 2
Panaleve Tablets 1
Pears 1
Peggy's Fruit Sauce 1
Phospherine Tablets 1
Pineapple 1
Pure Lard 2
Ready Brek 1
Red Cherries 1
Rice 1
Rum 3
Seeded Raisins 1
Setlers 1
Steak Casserole 1
Steak Pies 1
Stuphin 1
Sugar 1
Sweet Bake 1
Syrofans 1
Tea 1
The Linctus 1
Whisky 3
Total 121