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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 1954
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Twickenham]
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T able 24.
Sampling.
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 during the year ended 31st December, 1954:—
| Article | Total Samples procured | Unsatisfactory |
|---|---|---|
| Milk | 75 | 3 |
| Bread | 4 | 4 |
| Butter | 17 | — |
| Cakes | 15 | — |
| Calves'foot jelly | 1 | — |
| Cheese | 1 | — |
| Coffee and chicory essence | 2 | — |
| Cooked meats | 1 | — |
| Cornflour | 1 | — |
| Cream | 17 | 1 |
| Cut peel | 2 | — |
| Dressed crab | 1 | — |
| Dried fruit | 1 | — |
| Drugs | 3 | — |
| Fish | 24 | — |
| Flour | 2 | — |
| Fruit drinks | 2 | — |
| Gelatine, vegetarian | 1 | 1 |
| Glace cherries | 1 | - |
| Ice cream | 2 | — |
| Iced lolly | 1 | — |
| Jam | 1 | — |
| Jelly | 3 | — |
| Lard | 1 | — |
| Lemons | 2 | — |
| Lemon curd | 1 | — |
| Liver | 6 | 1 |
| Marmalade | 1 | — |
| Meat paste | 1 | — |
| Minced meat | 8 | — |
| Mincemeat | 1 | — |
| Non-brewed condiment | 3 | — |
| Olive oil | 1 | — |
| Oranges | 11 | — |
| Porage oats | 2 | 1 |
| Pickles, various | 6 | — |
| Prawns | 1 | — |
| Salad cream | 2 | —' |
| Sausages | 8 | — |
| Shrimps | 1 | — |
| Soft drinks | 1 | 1 |
| Spinach puree | 1 | — |
| Suet | 1 | — |
| Sweets | 3 | — |
| Tinned fruit | 2 | — |
| Tomato juice | 2 | — |
| Tomato sauce | 2 | — |
| Victoria plums | 13 | — |
| Vinegar | 30 | — |
| Wines and spirits | 45 | 1 |
| Totals | 334 | 13 |