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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:—

ArticleTotal Samples procuredUnsatisfactory
Milk753
Bread44
Butter17
Cakes15
Calves'foot jelly1
Cheese1
Coffee and chicory essence2
Cooked meats1
Cornflour1
Cream171
Cut peel2
Dressed crab1
Dried fruit1
Drugs3
Fish24
Flour2
Fruit drinks2
Gelatine, vegetarian11
Glace cherries1-
Ice cream2
Iced lolly1
Jam1
Jelly3
Lard1
Lemons2
Lemon curd1
Liver61
Marmalade1
Meat paste1
Minced meat8
Mincemeat1
Non-brewed condiment3
Olive oil1
Oranges11
Porage oats21
Pickles, various6
Prawns1
Salad cream2—'
Sausages8
Shrimps1
Soft drinks11
Spinach puree1
Suet1
Sweets3
Tinned fruit2
Tomato juice2
Tomato sauce2
Victoria plums13
Vinegar30
Wines and spirits451
Totals33413