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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
West Ham 1924
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for West Ham]
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Samples Taken (Sale of Food & Drug's Acts).
Milk
626
Ground Ginger
16
Condensed Milk
71
Baking Powder
49
Dried Milk
28
S.R Flour
28
Cream
18
Caraway Seeds
1
Preserved Cream
6
Coffee and Chicory
1
Butter
204
Mustard Compound
1
Margarine
21
Salad Cream
1
Lard
65
Semolina
1
Dripping
7
Lemon Powder
2
Coffee
27
Dessicated Cocoanut
1
Cocoa
44
Total
1,363
Mustard
30
Pepper
77
Vinegar and Malt Vinegar
38
Various Adulterated Articles-
Milk—
Deficient Solids not Fat 2
Deficient Fat and Solids not Fat 4
Deficient in Fat 1
Butter 1
Veterinary Surgeon's Report.
During the year 1924 only seven Cowsheds were occupied,
and I append below the four quarterly returns made to me by
Mr. McCunn. your Veterinary Surgeon, with the number of
cows examined. There was no evidence of contagious or
infectious disease in any of the animals.