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 1952 samples were taken for analysis as under:—
Articles | Analysed | Inferior or Adulterated | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Formal | Informal | Total | Formal | Informal | Total | |
Almond flavouring | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
Beetroot and red-currant jelly | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
Bev. coffee | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
Butter | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - |
Caraway seeds | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
Celery | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
Celery salt | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
Cocoa | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | * |
Coffee and chicory essence | - | 6 | 6 | - | - | - |
Compound turtle extract | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
Cream of chicken soup | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | 1 |
Cream of mushroom soup | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
Culinary oil | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
Curry powder | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
Dessicated coconut | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
Epsom salts | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | 1 |
Glycerine | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
Glycerine, honey and lemon | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
Honey | - | 3 | 3 | - | - | - |
Horseradish cream | - | 2 | 2 | - | - | - |
Horseradish sauce | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
Ice-cream | 6 | - | 6 | - | - | - |
Lemon juice | - | 2 | 2 | - | - | - |
Maralyn | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
Milk | 22 | 29 | 51 | - | - | - |
Mincemeat | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
Mint jelly | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
Olive oil | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
Orange squash | - | 2 | 2 | - | - | - |
Paste bloater | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
Pepper | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
Pepper flavoured compound | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
Pickled walnuts | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
Pineapple sweetened | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
Prepared German mustard | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
Prepared parsley | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
Rennet essence | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
Rice | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
Salad cream | - | 3 | 3 | - | - | - |
Sausages, beef | 2 | - | 2 | - | - | - |
Sausages, liver | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
Sausages, pork | 7 | - | 7 | 3 | - | 3 |
Self-raising flour | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
Strawberry jam | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
Suet, beef | - | 2 | 2 | - | - | - |
Synthetic cream | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
Tapioca | - | 2 | 2 | - | - | - |
Tea | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
Tomato chutney | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
Tomato ketchup | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
Vegetable salad | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
Vinegar | 1 | 5 | 6 | - | - | - |
Whisky | 11 | - | 11 | - | - | - |
Totals | 50 | 94 | 144 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
* Coconut supplied by mistake for Cocoa.
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