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 Barnet Urban District Council]
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A complainant produced an opened tin of ham and chicken roll and embedded in
the meat was a fly of the blue bottle type. The Council authorised proceedings
to be taken which resulted in a fine of £5-0-0d "being imposed.
Similarly, a complainant brought to the office an almost empty bottle of cream
on the bottom of which was a lump of glass resembling part of a bottle.
Proceedings were taken resulting in a fine of £l0-0-0d and costs.
Article | No. Examined | No. Adulterated Etc. | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Formal | Informal | Total | Formal | Informal | Total | |
Ammoniated Tincture of Quinine | — | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 |
Cereals | — | 3 | 3 | — | ||
Cheese Spread | — | - | 1 | — | - | |
Cheese and Bacon Spread | — | 1 | 1 | - | — | |
Chicken Croquette | — | 1 | 1 | - | - | |
Chicken Puffs | - | 1 | 1 | - | ||
Chicklettes | — | 1 | 1 | — | _ | |
Chocolate, Drinking | - | 1 | 1 | — | ||
Coconut | — | 1 | 1 | — | ||
Coffee and Chicory | - | 2 | 2 | - | — | |
Cooking Pat | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | |
Crab, Dressed | — | - | 2 | — | ||
Cream | — | 1 | 1 | - | - | |
Decorating Jelly | — | 1 | 1 | — | - | |
Dessert Moulds | — | 4 | 4 | - | - | |
Pish Paste | _ | 2 | 2 | — | ||
Pish Sticks | — | 1 | 1 | - | ||
Fruit Sauce | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | |
Game Pate | - | 1 | 1 | - | ||
Herring Tid Bits | - | 2 | 2 | — | 2 | 2 |
Horseradish | — | 1 | 1 | - | - | |
Icing Mixture | — | 1 | 1 | — | - | |
Loaf, sliced | — | 1 | 1 | — | ||
Lolly | — | 1 | 1 | - | — | |
Mace, Ground | - | 1 | 1 | _ | ||
Margarine | — | 1 | 1 | — | ||
Marmalade | — | 1 | 1 | |||
Meat Paste | — | 2 | 2 | — | ||
Meats and Meat Products | 8 | 8 | — | |||
Milk | 9 | 9 | - | |||
Milk, Condensed | - | 1 | 1 | — | — | - |
Milk Flavouring | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | — |
Mock Salmon Cutlet | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | |
Mushrooms, sliced | — | 1 | 1 | - | ||
Orange Squash | — | 1 | 1 | — | - | — |
Peel, Candied | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | — |
Pepper | - | 2 | 2 | — | — | — |
Powdered Soup | - | 1 | 1 | — | - | — |
Prawns, Peeled | — | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 |
Ratafias | — | 1 | 1 | — | ||
Rice | — | 2 | 2 | |||
Saccharin Tablets | — | 1 | 1 | |||
Sal Volatile | — | 1 | 1 | — | ||
Sauce | — | 1 | 1 | |||
Sweets and Confectionery | - | 3 | 3 | — | 1 | 1 |
Tea | — | 2 | 2 | — | ||
Turkey Croquette | - | 1 | 1 | - | ||
Vinegar, Malt | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
Total | 9 | 69 | 78 | - | 5 | 5 |