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 Sutton and Cheam]
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Pood and Drugs Act 1938
The following table indicates the samples taken during the year 1945:-
NUMBER EXAMINED | NUMBER ADULTERATED ETC. | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Informal | Formal | Total | Informal | Formal | Total | |
Milk | 58 | 58 | ||||
Butter | 4 | 4 | ||||
Margarine | 4 | 4 | ||||
Lard | 4 | 4 | ||||
Suet | 2 | 2 | ||||
Meat Extract | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
Sausages | 1 | 3 | 4 | |||
Sausages, Pork | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Sausages, Beef | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
Sausages, Vegetable | 1 | 1 | ||||
Sausage meat | 1 | 1 | * | |||
Tea | 1 | 1 | ||||
Drinking Chocolate | 1 | 1 | ||||
Cake mixture | 1 | 1 | ||||
Pudding Mixture | 1 | 1 | ||||
Sponge Pudding | 1 | 1 | ||||
Semolina | 1 | ' | 1 | |||
Semolina (Lemon Flavour) | 1 | 1 | ||||
Golden Raising Powder | 5 | 5 | • | |||
Egg Substitute Powder | 1 | 1 | ||||
Baking Powder | 3 | 3 | ||||
Flour - Batter | 1 | 1 | ||||
Flour - Bun | 1 | 1 | ||||
Flour - Cake | 1 | |||||
Flour - Self-raising | 5 | 5 | ||||
Oat Flour | 1 | |||||
Flour - Soya | 1 | 1 | ||||
Breadcrumbs | 1 | |||||
Stuffing, Sage & Onion | 1 | |||||
Flavouring Essence - Almond | 2 | V | 2 | |||
Flavour - Blackcurrant | 1 | 1 | ||||
Flavouring Essence, Banana | 1 | 1 | ||||
Flavouring Essence, Cocoanut | 1 | 1 | ||||
Flavouring Essence, Lemon | 1 | 1 | ||||
"Semolalf | 1 | 1 | ||||
Table Jelly crystals | 1 | 1 | ||||
Cornflour flavoured Raspberry | 1 | |||||
Cornflour flavoured strawberry | 1 | |||||
Cornflour flavoured Vanilla | 1 | 1 | ||||
Arrowroot | 1 | 1 | ||||
Jam | 8 | 8 | ||||
Marmalade | 3 | |||||
Invert Sugar & Honey | 1 | - | 1 | |||
Gelatine | 5 | 5 | ||||
Glycerine | 1 | 1 | ||||
Glycerine & Rosewater | 1 | |||||
Cinnamon, Ground | 1 | 1 | ||||
Ground Ginger | 4 | 4 | ||||
Nutmegs, Ground | 2 | 2 | ||||
Kesbah Kidney Cure | ||||||
Horseradish Cream | ||||||
"Sevoura" | ||||||
Pepper | 1 | 1 | ||||
Mustard - liquid | 2 | |||||
Mustard - mixture | 1 | 1 | ||||
Carried forward | 64 | 155 | 2 |
14.