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 Romford]
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TABLE 13 SUMMARY OF SAMPLES TAKEN FOR ANALYSIS DURING THE YEAR 1958
Article | Number examined | Result of Analysis | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Formal | Informal | Total | Genuine | Not Genuine | |
Almond Icing | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | - |
Aspirin Tablets | - | 2 | 2 | 2 | - |
Aspirin Tablets, Childrens | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | - |
Baked Beans & Pork Sausage | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | - |
Biscottes | — | 1 | 1 | — | 1 |
Black Pudding | — | 2 | 2 | 2 | — |
Bread | — | 3 | 3 | — | 3 |
Butter | — | 7 | 7 | 6 | 1 |
Cake Icing | — | 1 | 1 | 1 | — |
Cake Mix (Fruit) | — | 1 | 1 | 1 | — |
Capsules | — | 1 | 1 | 1 | — |
Catarrh Syrup | — | 1 | 1 | 1 | — |
Celery Salt | — | 1 | 1 | 1 | — |
Cheese | — | 10 | 10 | 10 | - |
Cherry Linctus | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | - |
Chicken Broth | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | - |
Chicken, chopped | — | 1 | 1 | 1 | - |
Chicken, minced | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | - |
Chocolate Drink | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | - |
Cinnamon | - | 2 | 2 | 2 | - |
Cloves, ground | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | - |
Coconut | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | - |
Coffee & Chicory Essence | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | - |
Condensed Milk | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | - |
Cooking Oil | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | - |
Cornish Pasty | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | - |
Cough Pastilles | - | 2 | 2 | 2 | - |
Crab, dressed | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | - |
Cream | - | 7 | 7 | 7 | - |
Currants | - | 4 | 4 | 4 | - |
Curry Powder | - | 2 | 2 | 2 | - |
Dextrol | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | - |
Flavourings various | - | 9 | 9 | 9 | - |
Fruit dried | - | 3 | 3 | 3 | - |
Fruit, drink powder | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | - |
Fruit, mixed | - | 7 | 7 | 7 | - |
Fruit, pudding baked | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 |
Fruit, salad evaporated | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 |
Gelatine | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | - |
Ginger, ground | - | 5 | 5 | 5 | - |
Glucose | - | 2 | 2 | 2 | - |
Herbs (dried mixed sweet) | - | 2 | 2 | 2 | - |
Ice Cream | - | 16 | 16 | 16 | - |
Ice Lolly | 1 | 15 | 16 | 14 | 2 |
Jam | - | 6 | 6 | 6 | - |
Jelly | - | 4 | 4 | 4 | - |
Kokozade | - | 2 | 2 | 2 | - |
Lard | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | - |
Lemon Curd | - | 2 | 2 | 2 | - |
Lemon Squash | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
Linseed Liquorice and Chlorodine Tabs | - | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
Margarine | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | - |
Marmalade | - | 4 | 4 | 4 | - |
Marzipan substitute | - | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
Meat, luncheon | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | - |
Meringue Powder | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | - |
Corned forward | 1 | 154 | 155 | 144 | 11 |