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 1950 samples were taken for analysis as under :—
Articles | Analysed | Inferior or Adulterated | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Formal | Informal | Total | Formal | Informal | Total | |
Almonds, ground | - | 2 | 2 | - | - | - |
Aspic jelly powder | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
Aspirin tablets | - | 3 | 3 | - | - | - |
Baker's filling | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
Bicarbonate of Soda | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
Butter | 3 | - | 3 | - | - | - |
Butter, peanut | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
Cake flour | - | - | 2 | - | - | - |
Cake mixture, sweetened | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
Camphorated oil | - | - | 2 | - | - | - |
Cinnamon, ground | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
Cocoa powder | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
Coconut, dessicated | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
Coffee | 1 | 5 | 6 | - | - | - |
Coffee and chicory | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
Cornflour | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
Custard powder | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
Dripping, beef | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
Flavouring, coconut | - | - | 2 | - | - | - |
Fynnon salts | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
Gelatine dessert | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
Gelatine unsweetened | - | - | 1 | - | - | - |
dessert | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
Glycerine | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
Glycerine and honey | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | 1 |
Gravy powder | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
Honey | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
Ice-cream | - | - | 7 | - | - | - |
Jelly, table | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
Jelly, table crystals | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
Lemonade crystals | - | 2 | 2 | - | - | - |
Meat roll | 1 | - | l | - | - | - |
Milk | 24 | 35 | 59 | - | 2 | 2 |
Mustard | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | |
Olive Oil | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | |
Onion powder (dehydrated) | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | |
Paste, fish | - | 5 | 5 | - | - | |
Paste, meat | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
Pea flour | - | 1 | l | - | - | - |
Pepper | 2 | 9 | 11 | - | - | - |
Pie, pork | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
Potato crisps | - | 3 | 3 | - | - | - |
Pudding mixture | - | - | 2 | - | - | - |
Puree, apricot | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | 1 |
Rennet, essence of | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
Saccharin tablets | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
Salad cream | 1 | 1 | 2 | - | - | - |
Sausage, beef | 9 | - | 11 | - | - | - |
Sausage, liver | - | 1 | l | - | - | - |
Sausage, pork | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - |
Sausage roll | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
Spice, mixed | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
Spice, pickling | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
Suet, shredded beef | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
Sugar, demerara | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - |
Stuffing, sage and onion | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
Tapioca dessert | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
Teaseed oil | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
Throat tablets | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
Vinegar, malt | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | |
Whisky, liqueur | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
Totals | 44 | 122 | 166 | - | 4 | 4 |