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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 1952

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wimbledon]

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Table: Sampling of Food and Drugs.During 1952 samples were taken for analysis as under:—

Sampling of Food and Drugs.

During 1952 samples were taken for analysis as under:—

ArticlesAnalysedInferior or Adulterated
FormalInformalTotalFormalInformalTotal
Almond flavouring-11---
Beetroot and red-currant jelly-11---
Bev. coffee-11---
Butter1-1---
Caraway seeds-11---
Celery-11---
Celery salt-11---
Cocoa-11--*
Coffee and chicory essence-66---
Compound turtle extract-11---
Cream of chicken soup-11-11
Cream of mushroom soup-11---
Culinary oil-11---
Curry powder-11---
Dessicated coconut-11---
Epsom salts-11-11
Glycerine-11---
Glycerine, honey and lemon-11---
Honey-33---
Horseradish cream-22---
Horseradish sauce-11---
Ice-cream6-6---
Lemon juice-22---
Maralyn-11---
Milk222951---
Mincemeat-11---
Mint jelly-11---
Olive oil-11---
Orange squash-22---
Paste bloater-11---
Pepper-11---
Pepper flavoured compound-11---
Pickled walnuts-11---
Pineapple sweetened-11---
Prepared German mustard-11---
Prepared parsley-11---
Rennet essence-11---
Rice-11---
Salad cream-33---
Sausages, beef2-2---
Sausages, liver-11---
Sausages, pork7-73-3
Self-raising flour-11---
Strawberry jam-11---
Suet, beef-22---
Synthetic cream-11---
Tapioca-22---
Tea-11---
Tomato chutney-11---
Tomato ketchup-11---
Vegetable salad-11---
Vinegar156---
Whisky11-11---
Totals5094144325

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* Coconut supplied by mistake for Cocoa.
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