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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
Sutton and Cheam 1953
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Sutton and Cheam]
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| Type of Sample | Samples examined | Unsatisfactory samples | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Formal | Informal | Total | Formal | Informal | Total | |
| Brought forward: | 2 | 66 | 68 | - | 3 | 3 |
| Honey | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Ice Cream | 12 | 12 | ||||
| Ice Cream Powder | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Ice Lolly | 2 | 2 | ||||
| J am | 3 | 3 | ||||
| Jelly (table) | 5 | 5 | ||||
| Ketchup Tomato | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Lemon Cheese | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Lemon Juice | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Lemonade Powder | 4 | 4 | ||||
| Loaf (Veal and Ham) | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Liquid paraffin | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Liver Tablets | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Marmalade | 4 | 4 | ||||
| Marzipan | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Meat Extract | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Milk | 31 | 3 | 34 | 2 | - | 2 |
| Mint Jelly | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Mint Sauce | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Mustard (German) | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Nuts (Mixed) | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Olive Oil | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Paste (Meat) | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Peas | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Pepper | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Pepper Compound | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Pepper White | 4 | 4 | ||||
| Peppermint Lozenges | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | |
| Pie (Pork) | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Pie (Steak and Kidney) | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Pudding (Milk) | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Rice Flaked | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Saccharin Tablets | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Salt (Gravy) | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Sauce | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Sausages (Beef) | 4 | - | 4 | |||
| Sausages (Pork) | 9 | 1 | 10 | 2 | - | 2 |
| Spice Pickling | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Suet | 3 | 3 | ||||
| Suet (Beef) | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Sweets | 13 | 13 | - | 2 | 2 | |
| Teething Powders | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Throat Lozenges | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Tomato Juice Cocktail | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Tonic Nerve | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Vegetable and Meat Extract | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Vinegar | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Vinegar (Cider) | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Vitamin Syrup | 2 | - | 2 | |||
| Vitamin Tablets | 1 | - | 1 | |||
| Welsh Rarebit | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Wine (Ginger) | 1 | - | 1 | |||
| Wine (Orange) | 1 | — | 1 | |||
| Totals | 51 | 161 | 212 | 4 | 6 | 10 |