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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 1956
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Sutton and Cheam]
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| Type of Food sampled | Number of samples examined | Unsatisfactory samples | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Formal | Informal | Total | Formal | Informal | Total | |
| Brought forward | 7 | 64 | 71 | 1 | 5 | 6 |
| Honey | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
| Ice Cream | - | 10 | 10 | - | - | - |
| Ice Lollies | - | 3 | 3 | - | - | |
| Icing Sugar | - | 2 | 2 | - | - | - |
| Instant Pudding | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | |
| Iron jelloids | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | |
| Jam | - | 2 | 2 | - | - | - |
| Jelly | - | 4 | 4 | - | - | |
| Lard | 1 | — | 1 | - | - | - |
| Lemon Curd | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
| Lemonade Crystals | - | 3 | 3 | - | - | - |
| Liquid Paraffin | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
| Liver Sausage | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
| Margarine | 2 | - | 2 | - | - | - |
| Marzipan | 3 | 1 | 4 | - | - | |
| Mayonnaise - Tarragon | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
| Milk | 17 | 7 | 24 | - | - | - |
| Milk - Channel Island | 15 | - | 15 | " | - | - |
| Milk - South Devon | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | |
| Milk - "Warm" | 3 | - | 3 | 1 | — | 1 |
| Mincemeat | 1 | 3 | 4 | - | - | - |
| Mint in Vinegar | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
| Mustard - Continental | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
| Nerve Tonic | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
| Olive Oil | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
| Orange Drink | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - |
| Paste | - | 5 | 5 | - | - | |
| Peanuts - Chocolate | - | 1 | 1 | - | ||
| Peas - Processed | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
| Peel | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | |
| Pep-up Tablets | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
| Pepper - white | - | 2 | 2 | - | - | |
| Pickle | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
| Pickling Spice | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
| Pie Steak | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
| Pie Steak & Kidney | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
| Pine Linctus | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | |
| Pork - Minced | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | |
| Prophylactic Tablets | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
| Raisin Chocolate | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | |
| Rennet | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
| Rice - Creamed | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
| Rice - flaked | - | 1 | - | - | - | |
| Rice - ground | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
| Rose - Hip Syrup | - | 2 | 2 | - | - | - |
| Salmon relish | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
| Salmon Spread | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
| Sauce | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
| Sausage - Pork | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - |
| Savoury Spread | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
| Sherry | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
| Sleep Tablets | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
| Steak & Kidney Pudding | - | 2 | 2 | - | 1 | 1 |
| Strawberry flavouring | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
| Suet | - | 2 | 2 | - | - | - |
| Sugar - Demerara | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
| Table Dessert | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
| Tapioca | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
| Tea | - | 3 | 3 | - | - | - |
| Tenderising Salt | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
| Carried forward | 52 | 153 | 205 | 2 | 6 | 8 |