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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Sample | Article. | Formal or Informal. | Result of Analysis. | Action taken. |
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547 | Cream of Magnesia, B.P. | Informal | Contained magnesia 9.3 per cent. The proportion of magnesia in the sample was 12 per cent. excessive. | Formal sample obtained. |
599 | Cream of Magnesia, B.P. | Formal | do., do. | Warning letter sent to manufacturers. |
421 | Sterilised Milk | Informal | Ingredients corresponded to the presence of 8 per cent. of added water. The sample had a faint smell suggestive of paraffin. | Formal sample found genuine. |
438 | Chutney | Formal | Contained carcases of mites, approximately 200 per ounce. | Manufacturers warned. |
489 | Pork Sausages | Informal | Contained sulphur dioxide 185 per million. Sausages should not contain preservative unless its presence is declared at the time of purchase. | Manufacturers warned. |
461 | Sugar | Informal | Comprised sugar 97.7 per cent., detergent 2.3 per cent. | Formal sample obtained. |
The foods examined during the year were as follows:—
Almonds, Ground | 3 | Canned Fruit | 11 |
Beverages | 6 | Bottled Fruit | 2 |
Baking Powder | 3 | Dried Fruit | 18 |
Biscuits | 13 | Fruit, Crystallised and Glace | 4 |
Bread | 5 | Fruit, Juice | 7 |
Butter | 5 | Fruit Pie | 5 |
Blancmange Powder | 2 | Fruit Curd | 5 |
Cake and Pudding Mixtures | 17 | Gravy Preparations | 8 |
Breadcrumbs | 2 | Linctus and Pastilles | 3 |
Caraway Seeds | 2 | Dried Herbs | 4 |
Cheese and Cheese Spreads | 17 | Honey and Mixtures | 7 |
Cocoa and Drinking Chocolate | 5 | Dried Horseradish | 2 |
Coconut, Desiccated | 3 | Jams | 8 |
Coffee | 16 | Jelly (Calves Feet) | 2 |
Confectionery, Sugar | 12 | Jelly Tablets, Crystal and Fruit Jelly | 12 |
Confectionery, Flour | 31 | ||
Cornflour | 3 | Lard | 4 |
Cream | 7 | Lentils | 3 |
Custard Powder | 3 | Margarine | 3 |
Curry Powder | 2 | Magnesia | 3 |
Dessert Powder | 7 | Marmalade | 5 |
Soft Drinks | 10 | Marzipan | 11 |
Mineral Drinks | 7 | Meat Products | 61 |
Lemonade Powder | 3 | Meat Paste | 5 |
Dripping | 2 | Milk | 194 |
Fish | 16 | Milk Pudding, Canned | 2 |
Fish Paste | 14 | Mincemeat | 5 |
Flour | 8 | Mustard, Prepared | 2 |
Flavouring Essence | 4 | Olive Oil | 3 |