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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Barnet 1959

[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.

Table: Proceedings were taken resulting in a fine of £l0-0-0d and costs.

Proceedings were taken resulting in a fine of £l0-0-0d and costs.

ArticleNo. ExaminedNo. Adulterated Etc.
FormalInformalTotalFormalInformalTotal
Ammoniated Tincture of Quinine—11—11
Cereals—33—--
Cheese Spread—-1—--
Cheese and Bacon Spread—11--—
Chicken Croquette—11---
Chicken Puffs-11---
Chicklettes—11—_-
Chocolate, Drinking-11—--
Coconut—11—--
Coffee and Chicory-22--—
Cooking Pat—11—-—
Crab, Dressed—-2—--
Cream—11---
Decorating Jelly—11—--
Dessert Moulds—44---
Pish Paste_22—--
Pish Sticks—11---
Fruit Sauce-11---
Game Pate-11---
Herring Tid Bits-22—22
Horseradish—11---
Icing Mixture—11—--
Loaf, sliced—11—--
Lolly—11-—-
Mace, Ground-11_--
Margarine—11—--
Marmalade—11---
Meat Paste—22-—-
Meats and Meat Products—88-—-
Milk9-9---
Milk, Condensed-11——-
Milk Flavouring—11———
Mock Salmon Cutlet—11—-—
Mushrooms, sliced—11---
Orange Squash—11—-—
Peel, Candied—11———
Pepper-22———
Powdered Soup-11—-—
Prawns, Peeled—11—11
Ratafias—11--—
Rice—22--
Saccharin Tablets—11---
Sal Volatile—11-—-
Sauce—11---
Sweets and Confectionery-33—11
Tea—22—--
Turkey Croquette-11---
Vinegar, Malt-11---
Total96978-55