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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 1950

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wimbledon]

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Table: Sampling of Food and Drugs.During 1950 samples were taken for analysis as under :—

Sampling of Food and Drugs.

During 1950 samples were taken for analysis as under :—

ArticlesAnalysedInferior or Adulterated
FormalInformalTotalFormalInformalTotal
Almonds, ground-22---
Aspic jelly powder-11---
Aspirin tablets-33---
Baker's filling-11---
Bicarbonate of Soda-11---
Butter3-3---
Butter, peanut-11---
Cake flour--2---
Cake mixture, sweetened-11---
Camphorated oil--2---
Cinnamon, ground-11---
Cocoa powder-11---
Coconut, dessicated-11---
Coffee156---
Coffee and chicory-11---
Cornflour-11---
Custard powder-11---
Dripping, beef-11---
Flavouring, coconut--2---
Fynnon salts-11---
Gelatine dessert-11---
Gelatine unsweetened--1---
dessert-11---
Glycerine-11---
Glycerine and honey-11-11
Gravy powder-11---
Honey-11---
Ice-cream--7---
Jelly, table-11---
Jelly, table crystals-11---
Lemonade crystals-22---
Meat roll1-l---
Milk243559-22
Mustard-11--
Olive Oil-11--
Onion powder (dehydrated)-11--
Paste, fish-55--
Paste, meat-11---
Pea flour-1l---
Pepper2911---
Pie, pork-11---
Potato crisps-33---
Pudding mixture--2---
Puree, apricot-11-11
Rennet, essence of-11---
Saccharin tablets-11---
Salad cream112---
Sausage, beef9-11---
Sausage, liver-1l---
Sausage, pork1-1---
Sausage roll-11---
Spice, mixed-11---
Spice, pickling-11---
Suet, shredded beef-11---
Sugar, demerara1-1---
Stuffing, sage and onion-11---
Tapioca dessert-11---
Teaseed oil-11---
Throat tablets-11---
Vinegar, malt11---
Whisky, liqueur-11---
Totals44122166-44