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 Wimbledon]
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Sampling of Food and Drugs.
During 1949 samples were taken for analysis as under:—
Articles | Analysed | Inferior or Adulterated | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Formal | Informal | Total | Formal | Informal | Total | |
Milk | 17 | 36 | 53 | - | 6 | 6* |
Beef Aspic Jelly | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
Blancmange | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
Breadcrumbs | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
Butter | 2 | - | 2 | - | - | - |
Bicarbonate of Soda | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
Carraway Seeds | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
Cherryade | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
Chocolate Spread | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
Cloves | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
Coffee | - | 9 | 9 | - | - | - |
Coffee and Chicory | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
Coffee Extract | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
Cough Mixture | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
Cornflour | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
Creamola | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
Cake Flour | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | 1† |
Cocoa | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
Custard Powder | - | 2 | 2 | -_ | - | - |
Essence | - | 2 | 2 | - | - | - |
Fish Paste | - | 2 | 2 | - | - | - |
Flavouring | - | 3 | 3 | - | - | - |
Ginger Ale | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
Ginger Spread | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
Ground Ginger | - | 2 | 2 | - | - | - |
Gelatine | - | 2 | 2 | - | - | - |
Glauber's Salts | 1 | 1 | 2 | - | - | - |
Horseradish | - | 3 | 3 | - | - | - |
Ice Cream | - | 5 | 5 | - | - | - |
Lemonade Powder | - | 3 | 3 | - | - | - |
Meat Paste | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
Mint Sauce | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
Pepper | - | 2 | - | - | - | _ |
Phensic Tablets | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
Pickling Spice | — | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
Potato Crisps | — | 5 | 5 | - | - | - |
Potato Powder | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
Propax Tablets | — | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
Pudding Mixture | — | 2 | 2 | - | - | - |
Sausages, Beef | 2 | — | 2 | - | - | - |
Sausages, Liver | — | 2 | 2 | - | - | - |
Sausages, Pork | 2 | — | 2 | - | - | - |
Salad Cream | 1 | 3 | 4 | - | - | - |
Soup Powder | — | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
Squash | — | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
Syrup of Figs | — | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
Sweetened Fat | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
Verox Cubes | — | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
Vinegar | — | 1 | 1 | - | — | - |
Totals | 25 | 113 | 138 | — | 7 | 7 |
* Adulterated
t Inferior
25