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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During 1951 samples were taken for analysis as under:—
Articles | Analysed | Inferior or Adulterated | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Formal | Informal | Total | Formal | Informal | Total | |
Arrowroot | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | — |
Bicarbonate of soda | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | — |
Blancmange Powder | — | 2 | 2 | — | — | — |
Brawn | — | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 |
Butter | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | — |
Calves feet jelly | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | — |
Caraway seeds | — | 1 | l | — | — | — |
Cayenne pepper | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | — |
Chocolate milk | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | — |
Cocoa | — | l | 1 | — | — | — |
Coco-cola | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | — |
Coffee (pure) | — | 2 | 2 | — | — | — |
Coffee and chicory | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | — |
Cooking fat | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | — |
Cream of tartar | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | — |
Dessert powder | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | — |
Dessicated coconut | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | — |
Flavouring, strawberry | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | — |
Flavouring, orange | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | — |
Gelatine | — | 2 | 2 | — | — | — |
Ginger | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | — |
Gravy powder | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | — |
Ground rice | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | — |
Honey | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | — |
Horse radish sauce | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | — |
Ice-cream | 3 | 12 | 15 | — | 1 | 1 |
Jam | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | — |
Jellied veal | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | — |
Jelly, table | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | — |
Lemon curd | — | 3 | 3 | — | 1 | 1 |
Macaroni in sauce | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | — |
Milk | 20 | 26 | 46 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
Olive Oil | — | 2 | 2 | — | — | — |
Onion powder (dehydrated) | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | — |
Oxo cubes | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | — |
Orange Squash | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | — |
Paste, beef | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | — |
Paste, fish | — | 2 | 2 | — | — | — |
Pea flour | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | — |
Pepper | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | — |
Pepper flavouring compound | — | 2 | 2 | — | — | — |
Pickling spice | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | — |
Pineapple, dried | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | — |
Potato crisps | — | 3 | 3 | — | — | — |
Rennet, essence of | — | i | 1 | — | — | — |
Rice creamola | — | 2 | 2 | — | — | — |
Salad cream | —_ | 2 | 2 | — | — | — |
Sage | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | — |
Sausage, beef | — | 3 | 3 | — | — | — |
Sausage, liver | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | — |
Suet, beef | 2 | 1 | 3 | — | 1 | 1 |
Soup, dessicated | . | 1 | 1 | — | — | — |
Soup, flavouring | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | — |
Sponge mixture | — | 2 | 1 | — | — | — |
Tapioca | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | — |
Tea | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | — |
Vinegar | — | 3 | 3 | — | — | — |
Totals | 25 | 110 | 135 | 1 | 7 | 8 |