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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
Shoreditch 1962
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]
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34.
FOOD ADMINISTRATION (Contd.)
The sampling of foodstuffs for Chemical examination
219 samples were submitted for chemical analysis to the Public Analyst during 1962. Details are as follows:-
| Almond Oil | 2 | Marzipan | 2 |
| Baking powder | 2 | Meat paste | 4 |
| Butter | 6 | Meat products | |
| Cheese Spread | 1 | Canned | 3 |
| Chocolate liqueurs | 1 | Meat products | |
| Coffee extract | (Pies) | 4 | |
| Confectionery flour | 5 | Medicated pastilles | 1 |
| Confectionery Sugar | 1 | Medicines | 2 |
| Cooking Pat | 1 | Milk | 54 |
| Cod-liver oil capsules | 1 | Milk, Dried | 1 |
| Cough Linctus | 1 | Mincemeat | 3 |
| Cream (sterilised) | 1 | Oil, cooking | 1 |
| Curry powder | Oil, olive | 1 | |
| Dessert powder | 1 | Paraffin, Medicinal | 1 |
| Drinks, Soft | 5 | Peel, Candied | 3 |
| Dripping | 1 | Quinine, Ammoniated | |
| Pish Cakes | 1 | tincture of | 1 |
| Pish Paste | 6 | Quinine and cinnamon | |
| Plavouring essence | 13 | tablets | 1 |
| Flour | 2 | Rum | 1 |
| Fruit, Canned | 2 | Saccharin tablets | 1 |
| Fruit fillings | 2 | Sauce | 2 |
| Fruit syrups | 5 | Sausages | 11 |
| Gin | 4 | Spice (nutmeg) | 2 |
| Ginger, Ground | 1 | Suet, Shredded | 4 |
| Halibut-liver oil capsules | 1 | Soup preparation | 1 |
| Ice Cream | 7 | Treacle | 1 |
| Ice lolly | 1 | Vegetables, canned | 4 |
| Iron and yeast tablets | 1 | Vinegar | 2 |
| Jam | Vinegar, imitation | 3 | |
| Jelly tablet | 1 | Whisky | 4 |
| Lard | 1 | Wine, Alcoholic | 3 |
| Margarine | 5 | Zinc & Castor Oil Cream | 1 |
| Marmalade | 1 | Zinc Ointment | 1 |