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Wimbledon 1954
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wimbledon]
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Tomato sauce 2 bottles
Tripe 15 lbs.
Vegetables (preserved) 195 tins
All unsound food was destroyed at the Corporation's Refuse Works.
Sampling of Food and Drugs.
The following samples were purchased during 1954 and were submitted to the Public Analyst, with the results shown:-
| Articles | Total | Formal | Informal | Genuine | Non-Genuine |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aniseed balls | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - |
| Apple vinegar | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - |
| Aspirin tablets | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - |
| Banana crush | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - |
| Beef steak | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - |
| Blackcurrant juice | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - |
| Brandy | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - |
| Bread | 1 | - | 1 | - | 1 |
| Butter | 2 | - | 2 | - | |
| Cake mixture | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - |
| Cake and pudding mixture | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - |
| Cherries, glace | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - |
| Chocolate, drinking | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - |
| Chutney | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - |
| Cigarettes (confectionery) | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - |
| Cocoa | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - |
| Coconut chips | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - |
| Coconut sugared | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - |
| Coffee | 2 | 2 | - | 2 | - |
| Coffee and chicory essence | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - |
| Cooking fat | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - |
| Crab, dressed | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - |
| Crabmeat, fancy | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - |
| Currants | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - |
| Custard powder | 2 | 2 | - | 2 | - |
| Dates, stoned | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - |
| Fish paste | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - |
| Fish cakes | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - |
| Gin | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - |
| Grapefruit juice | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - |
| Honey, English | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - |
| Honey, Empire | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - |
| Horseradish | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - |
| Ice-Cream | 3 | 3 | - | 3 | - |
| Jam, Strawberry | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - |
| Lard | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - |
| Lemon flavour powder | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - |
| Lemon juice | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | - |
| Lemon oil capsule and citric acid tablet | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - |
| Licorice bar | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - |
| Licorice confectionery | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - |
| Liquid paraffin | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | - |
| Lung syrup | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - |
| C/Fwd. | 47 | 37 | 10 | 46 | 1 |