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 Woolwich]
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TABLE XVIII.
Summary of Articles Analysed, under the Sale of Pood and Drugs Act, during the year ended 31st December, 1911.
Article. | Number Analysed. | Number Adulterated. |
---|---|---|
Milk | 289 | 21 |
Butter | 52 | 1 |
Margarine | 7 | .. |
Tea | 23 | .. |
Cocoa | 16 | .. |
Jam | 17 | .. |
Mustard | 11 | .. |
Flour | 6 | .. |
Condensed Milk | 8 | .. |
Olive Oil | 4 | .. |
Spirits of Nitre | 1 | .. |
Tartaric Acid | 1 | .. |
Iron Pills | 1 | .. |
Liniment of Ammonia | 1 | .. |
Magnesia Carbonate | 1 | .. |
Blue Pills | 1 | .. |
Mercury Ointment | 1 | .. |
Mercury and Chalk Powder | 1 | .. |
Lime Water | 1 | .. |
Ammoniated Tincture of Quinine | 4 | .. |
Coffee | 6 | .. |
Cheese | 4 | . |
Quinine Wine | 3 | .. |
Cod Liver Oil | 3 | .. |
Pepper | 8 | .. |
Lemon Squash | 1 | 1 |
Rice | 6 | .. |
Honey | 2 | .. |
Lard | 2 | .. |
Bread | 4 | .. |
Tincture of Opium | 2 | .. |
Essential Oil of Camphor | 2 | .. |
Camphorated Oil | 2 | .. |
Malt Vinegar | 3 | .. |
Seidlitz Powder | 3 | .. |
Canned Cray-fish | 1 | .. |
Canned Roast Beef | 1 | .. |
Canned Smoked Herring | 1 | .. |
500 | 23 |