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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 1947
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Twickenham]
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Sampling.
The Middlesex County Council are the Food 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 | 261 | 7 |
| Milk, Channel Island | 5 | - |
| Coffee & Chicory Essence | 2 | - |
| Cooked Meats | 1 | - |
| Gin | 7 | 1 |
| Glycerine | 1 | - |
| Jam | 2 | - |
| Lemon Curd | 1 | - |
| Malt Vinegar | 1 | - |
| Meat Pies | 6 | 2 |
| Meat Savouries | 5 | - |
| Mineral Oil | 1 | 1 |
| Run | 1 | - |
| Sausages | 4 | - |
| Sausages, cooked | 10 | - |
| Sausage Meat | 4 | - |
| Sulphur Lozenges | 1 | - |
| Whale Meat Sausages | 1 | - |
| Whisky | 8 | - |
| White Precipitate Ointmont | 1 | - |
| Zinc Ointmont | 1 | - |
| TOTAL | 324 | 11 |
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