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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
Bromley 1951
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bromley]
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| Article. | Samples taken | Result | Remarks. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Formal. | Informal. | Genuine. | Adulleraled. | ||
| Milk. (Sterilised) | _ | 2 | 2 | _ | |
| Milk (Tuberculin Tested) | — | 1 | 1 | — | |
| Milk Whipping Compound.. | — | 1 | 1 | — | |
| Milk Chocolate Beads (Cake Decoration) | _ | 1 | 1 | __ | |
| Mincemeat | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | Sec (c) |
| Olive Oil | — | 1 | 1 | - | |
| Pea Flour | — | . 1 | 1 | - | |
| Pepper | — | 4 | 4 | - | |
| Pepper Flavoured Compound | — | 1 | 1 | - | |
| Popcorns | — | 1 | 1 | - | |
| Pudding (Xmas) | — | 1 | 1 | - | |
| Ratafia Flavouring | — | 1 | 1 | - | |
| Readicake | 1(d) | 1(e) | - | 2 | See (d) & (C) |
| Salad Cream | — | 1 | 1 | — | |
| Salmcm Spread | — | 1 | 1 | — | |
| Sardines in Edible Oil | — | 1 | 1 | — | |
| Sausage Meat | 1 | 9 | 9 | 1 | See (f) |
| Sausages | 2 | 6 | 7 | 1 | See (g) |
| Scotch Shortbread Mixture | — | 1 | 1 | — | |
| Silds in Tomato Sauce | — | 1 | 1 | — | |
| Soup (Baby—Meat & Veg.) | — | 1 | 1 | — | |
| Soup (Chicken Noodle) | — | 1 | 1 | — | |
| Suet | — | 1 | 1 | — | |
| Thirst Quenchers | — | 1 | 1 | — | |
| Vegetable Salad | — | 1 | 1 | — | |
| Vinegar (Malt) | — | 1 | 1 | — | |
| Vitacream | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | See (h) |
| Wheaticrunch | — | 1 | 1 | — | |
| Totals | 10 | 164 | 164 | 10 | |
(a) Arsenic content slightly above the accepted limit of 1/100 grain
per lb., viz.: 1/70 grain ner lb.
(b) Currants, Sultanas, Sugar and Fat. Fat rather rancid: Oleic acid
4.6% on fat. Inferior.
(c) Not mincemeat or a substitute for it but only dried fruit (Currants,
Sultanas and Sugar).
(d) Of ingredients mentioned, Arrowroot and Dried Egg not detected.
Milk Powder and Baking Powder present in small amounts,
if any.
(e) Arrowroot not detected. Carbon dioxide only 0.05%, Fat 10.2°/,,
Sugar 29.6%, Labelling generally unsatisfactory.
(f) Meat 56%, sulphite 38 p.p.m. Deficient 13.8% minimum amount of
meat.
(g) Meat 47%.
(h) (i) Fat 38.4%. Total solids 43.05%. Does not contain egg yolk,
(ii) Fat 30.3%. Sugar (as Sucrose), 1.6%. Other non-fatty solids
including sodium alginate 1.9%. The sample contained no
detectable amount of egg yolk (or of egg white), and the label
describing the ingredients as edible fat, egg yolk sodium
alginate and sugar is therefore false.
(iii) Fat 32.5%. Total solids 34.7%. Sugar 1.5%. Egg yolk none.