Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hillingdon]
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The following tables give details of the foods sampled together with the result and findings.
PRODUCT | PROCURED | Adulterated, below standard or otherwise not complying with prescribed requirements | PRODUCT | PROCURED | Adulterated, below standard or otherwise not complying with prescribed requirements | ||||
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Formally taken | Informally taken | Formally taken | Informally taken | Formally taken | Informally taken | Formally taken | Informally taken | ||
Alcohol Dispersant | 1 | Honey | |||||||
Beer | 1 | Indian food | 1 | ||||||
Biscuits | 2 | Instant non-fat milk | 2 | ||||||
Bread | 4 | ||||||||
Buttered rolls | 1 | Jam & Marmalade | 5 | ||||||
Canned cream | 3 | Jelly | 1 | ||||||
Canned fish | 2 | Marzipan | 1 | ||||||
Canned fruit | 11 | Mayonnaise | 3 | ||||||
Canned meals | 3 | Meat & meat products | 5 | ||||||
Canned meats & meat products | 15 | ||||||||
Milk & milk products | 5 | ||||||||
Soup (Canned) | 2 | ||||||||
Canned vegetables | 9 | Minerals | 1 | ||||||
Cheese & cheese products | 23 | 5 | Pickles | 3 | |||||
Potato mix | 5 | 3 | |||||||
Coffee | 2 | Preservative | 1 | ||||||
Cooking oil | 1 | 1 | Pudding mix | 1 | |||||
Cream | 4 | Rice products | 2 | ||||||
Curry & Curry Powder | 2 | Salad & Salad dressing | 2 | ||||||
Dandelion Coffee | 1 | Salt with flavouring | 1 | ||||||
Dessert Topping | 1 | ||||||||
Desiccated coconut | 7 | Sauces & Sauce mixes | 7 | ||||||
Dried fruit | 1 | Sausages | 5 | 29 | 4 | ||||
Drugs | 3 | Savoury spreads | 1 | ||||||
Evaporated milk | 4 | Seasoning & spices | 12 | ||||||
Fish products | 1 | ||||||||
Flavouring | 2 | Skimmed milk powder | 1 | ||||||
Flour | 1 | ||||||||
Flour Confect. | 1 | Sugar | 2 | ||||||
Food Colour | 2 | 1 | Sugar confect. | 6 | |||||
Fruit Drinks & Fruit Juice | 7 | Vinegar | 2 | ||||||
Yeast | 1 | ||||||||
Health Foods | 5 | Yoghourt | 3 | ||||||
Home brewing ingredients | 1 | Total | 6 | 227 | 16 |