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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

Richmond upon Thames 1957

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Richmond]

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Table: Food & Drugs Act, 1955 (Samplingof Foodand Drugs).The following table shows the results of examinations made of samples procured for analysis during the year.

Food & Drugs Act, 1955 (Samplingof Foodand Drugs).

The following table shows the results of examinations made of samples procured for analysis during the year.

Articles.Number AnalysedAdulterated or Irregular
FormalInformalTotalFormalInformalTotal
Beefburger—11---
Biscuits—33---
Blancmange Powder—11---
Brawn—11---
Butter—11---
Cake—44---
Caviar—11—11
Cheese—1111—11
Chicken Products—33---
Christmas Pudding—22---
Cough Mixture—11—1i
Cream—22---
Dried Fruit—88---
Fish Cakes—22---
Flavouring—11---
Friars Balsam B.P.—11---
Fruit Salad—33---
Fruit Wafer—22---
Galantine—11---
Ham and Beef Roll—11---
Hamburger—11---
Jellies—11---
Margarine—11---
Meat Pies and Puddings—44---
Meat Products—88---
Mushrooms, Creamed—11---
Mustard—11---
Nerve Tonic—22—11
Orange Squash—11---
Pepper—22---
Salmon Spread—22---
Sauce—22---
Sausages Sleeping Tablets—9 29 2—22
Slimming Tablets—33---
Soup—11---
Steakettes—11---
sweets—1111---
Vitamin Tablets—22---
Totals—106105—66