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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
Twickenham 1946
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Twickenham]
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Sampling
The Middlesex County Council are the Pood and Drugs
Authority for the Borough.
Mr.S.J.PUgh, Chief Officer, Public Control Department, has kindly supplied the following information relating to samples taken in the Borough during the year.
| Article | Samples | |
|---|---|---|
| Taken | Adulterated | |
| Milk | 167 | 1 |
| Milk, new | 18 | 1 |
| Aspirin | 1 | - |
| Banana plavouring | 1 | - |
| Boracic Ointment | 2 | - |
| Cooked Meats | 2 | |
| Cream of Tartar | 1 | - |
| Curry Powder | 1 | - |
| Dessert Sauce Powder | 1 | - |
| Drinking Chocolate | 2 | - |
| Gelatine | 1 | - |
| Gin | 9 | - |
| Ginger, ground | 1 | - |
| Ice Cream Powder | 1 | - |
| Lemon Cheese | 1 | - |
| Lemon Curd | 1 | - |
| Malt Cocoa Spread | 1 | - |
| Meat Extract | 1 | - |
| Meat Pies | 1 | - |
| Meat Savouries | 1 | - |
| Mustard | 3 | |
| Mustard, continental | 1 | - |
| Nutmeg, ground | 1 | - |
| Paprika | 1 | - |
| Piccalilli | 1 | - |
| Rennet Essence | 1 | - |
| Sausages | 17 | 2 |
| Sausages cooked | 2 | - |
| Sausage Meat | 1 | |
| Self-raising Flour | - | |
| Smoked Haddock | 1 | |
| Sugar | - | |
| Vinegar, non-brewed | - | |
| Whiskey | 8 | - |
| TOTAL | 268 | 9 |
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