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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 1959
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wimbledon]
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The complaints of extraneous matter in food above referred to
included the following :•—
Foreign body in orange squash.
Bitter taste in bread.
Rat droppings in butter beans.*
Glass in loaf of bread.
Dirty milk bottles.
Odour in lemonade.
Rusted cans of food.
Bitter taste in brewed tea.
Mould growth on wrapped bread.
Maggots in chocolate cakes.
Maggots in chocolates.
Foreign material in bottles of milk.
Ants in wrapped swiss roll.
Discoloured creamed rice milk pudding.*
Discoloured loaf of bread.
Foreign matter in bread.
* Denotes legal proceedings taken.
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