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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 1949
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Twickenham]
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Table 25.
The Middlesex County Council is the food and drugs authority for the Borough. The Chief Officer, Public Control Department, has kindly supplied the following information relating to samples taken in the Borough:—
| A rticle | Taken | Adullerated |
|---|---|---|
| Milk | 161 | - |
| Milk, Channel Island | 4 | — |
| Milk, South Devon | — | |
| Aspirin | 1 | — |
| Boracic ointment | 1 | — |
| Brandy | 1 | 1 |
| Coffee and chicory essence | 2 | — |
| Cherries | 1 | — |
| Cream fancies | 13 | — |
| Cream, goats' | — | |
| Easter egg | 1 | 1 |
| Effervescing drink powder | 1 | — |
| Egg yellow colouring | 1 | — |
| Fish paste | 1 | — |
| Gelatine | 1 | — |
| Gin | 11 | - |
| Grape jelly | 1 | - |
| Gravy browning | 1 | - |
| Ground nuts | 1 | 1 |
| Haddock, smoked | — | |
| Honey | 1 | — |
| Jam | 1 | 1 |
| Ice-cream | 1 | — |
| Lemonade powder | 1 | — |
| Liver sausage | 1 | — |
| Meat products | — | |
| Meats, cooked | 5 | — |
| Pastry | 1 | - |
| Pork, Danish | 1 | — |
| Port | 1 | — |
| Rum | 4 | — |
| Salad cream | 3 | — |
| Sausages and sausage meat | 29 | 2 |
| Sherbert | 1 | — |
| Sweets | 2 | 1 |
| Syrup of figs | 1 | — |
| Whisky | 39 | — |
| 304 | 7 |