London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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
Hillingdon 1971
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hillingdon]
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Food and Drugs Act, 1955
Details of Food examined in accordance with the requirements of the Food and Drugs Act
1955 are set out in the following table:
| PRODUCT | PROCURED | Adulterated, below standard or otherwise not complying with prescribed requirements | PRODUCT | PROCURED | Adulterated, below standard or otherwise not complying with prescribed requirements | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Formally taken | Informally taken | Formally taken | Informally taken | Formally taken | Informally taken | Formally taken | Informally taken | ||
| Biscuits | 6 | Drugs | 6 | ||||||
| Bread roll | 1 | 1 | Essences | 7 | |||||
| Buttered bread | 3 | 1 | Evaporated milk | 1 | |||||
| Cake & pudding mix | 7 | 1 | Fish products | 8 | |||||
| Fruit drinks & juices | 7 | ||||||||
| Canned fish | 5 | ||||||||
| Canned fruit | 1 | Fruit pies | 1 | ||||||
| Canned meat | 5 | Gelatine | 1 | ||||||
| Canned & packet meals | 6 | Indian food | 8 | ||||||
| Instant mashed potato | 3 | 1 | |||||||
| Canned puddings | 9 | ||||||||
| Canned vegetables | 3 | Martini | 1 | ||||||
| Cereals | 11 | Mayonnaise | 1 | ||||||
| Cheese & cheese products | 7 | 1 | Meat & meat products | 27 | 4 | ||||
| Chicken | 2 | Minerals | 2 | ||||||
| Chinese foods | 3 | Mustard | 4 | ||||||
| Coffee | 1 | Nutrament | 2 | ||||||
| Cooking oil | 2 | 2 | Pat6 | 6 | |||||
| Chocolate confectionery | 2 | 1 | Pickles | 4 | |||||
| Preserves | 5 | ||||||||
| Confectionery | 5 | Rice products | 1 | ||||||
| Crisps | 1 | 1 | Salad cream | 1 | |||||
| Curry & curry powder | 4 | Sauces & sauce mix | 11 | 2 | |||||
| Dessicated coconut | 3 | Sausages | 5 | 38 | 3 | ||||
| Spices & savoury spread | 8 | ||||||||
| Diabetic bread | 1 | ||||||||
| Diabetic confect. | 1 | Soups canned & packet | 7 | 1 | |||||
| Diabetic canned fruit | 1 | ||||||||
| Suet | 3 | ||||||||
| Diabetic preserve | 1 | ||||||||
| Dried fruit | 2 | Total: | 9 | 250 | 1 | 18 | |||