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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

Wimbledon 1949

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wimbledon]

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Table: Sampling of Food and Drugs.During 1949 samples were taken for analysis as under:—

Sampling of Food and Drugs.

During 1949 samples were taken for analysis as under:—

ArticlesAnalysedInferior or Adulterated
FormalInformalTotalFormalInformalTotal
Milk173653-66*
Beef Aspic Jelly-11---
Blancmange-11---
Breadcrumbs-11---
Butter2-2---
Bicarbonate of Soda-11---
Carraway Seeds-11---
Cherryade-11---
Chocolate Spread-11---
Cloves-11---
Coffee-99---
Coffee and Chicory-11---
Coffee Extract-11---
Cough Mixture-11---
Cornflour-11---
Creamola-11---
Cake Flour-11-11†
Cocoa-11---
Custard Powder-22-_--
Essence-22---
Fish Paste-22---
Flavouring-33---
Ginger Ale-11---
Ginger Spread-11---
Ground Ginger-22---
Gelatine-22---
Glauber's Salts112---
Horseradish-33---
Ice Cream-55---
Lemonade Powder-33---
Meat Paste-11---
Mint Sauce-11---
Pepper-2---_
Phensic Tablets-11---
Pickling Spice—11---
Potato Crisps—55---
Potato Powder-11---
Propax Tablets—11---
Pudding Mixture—22---
Sausages, Beef2—2---
Sausages, Liver—22---
Sausages, Pork2—2---
Salad Cream134---
Soup Powder—11---
Squash—11---
Syrup of Figs—11---
Sweetened Fat-11---
Verox Cubes—11---
Vinegar—11-—-
Totals25113138—77

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* Adulterated
t Inferior
25