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Tottenham 1948
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Tottenham]
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Food Sampling.
The following information has been furnished by the Middlesex
County Council Public Control Department relative to the Formal
and Informal Samples taken in accordance with the Food and Drugs
Act, 1938, namely:—
SAMPLES OF FOOD AND DRUGS TAKEN IN THE BOROUGH OF TOTTENHAM DURING THE YEAR ENDED31st DECEMBER,
| Article. | Formal Samples. | Informal Samples. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Taken. | Adulterated. | Taken. | Adulterated. | |
| Aspirin | 1 | — | — | — |
| Borax and honey | 1 | — | — | — |
| Butter | 1 | 1 | 12 | — |
| Cod | — | — | 3 | — |
| Coffee | 1 | — | — | — |
| Coffee & chicory extract | 1 | — | — | — |
| Cooked meat | — | — | 2 | — |
| Cooking oil | 2 | 2 | — | — |
| Cream cake | — | — | 16 | — |
| Flour, self-raising | 2 | — | — | — |
| Gin | — | — | 15 | — |
| Hake | — | — | 2 | 1 |
| Halibut | — | — | 1 | — |
| Honey, glycerine & lemon linctus | 1 | — | — | — |
| Horseradish sauce | 1 | — | — | — |
| Imperial wine cocktail | 1 | — , | — | — |
| Meat pie | 1 | — | 11 | — |
| Meat savoury | — | — | 3 | — |
| Milk | 72 | 7 | 282 | 9 |
| Milk, condensed | 1 | — | — | — |
| Milk, South Devon | 2 | — | — | — |
| New milk ice cream | 1 | 1 | — | — |
| Olive oil (edible) | 1 | — | — | — |
| Pickled onions | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Plaice | — | — | 4 | 1 |
| Preserves | 2 | — | — | — |
| Pop-corn toffee | — | — | 1 | — |
| Pure tomato juice | — | — | 1 | — |
| Rissole, nut | 1 | — | — | — |
| Rum | — | — | 1 | — |
| Salad dressings | 2 | 1 | — | — |
| Sausages | 3 | 1 | 7 | — |
| Sausage meat | — | — | 1 | — |
| Sausage, cooked | — | — | 7 | 1 |
| Sherry | — | — | 1 | — |
| Sole | — | — | 2 | — |
| Sulphur tablets | I | — | — | — |
| Sweet chocolate pudding | 1 | — | — | — |
| Tomato ketchup | 1 | — | — | — |
| Turpentine (med.) | 1 . | — | — | — |
| Vinegar, malt | 1 | — | — | — |
| Vinegar, non-brewed | 2 | — | — | — |
| Whisky | — | — | 19 | 1 |
| White petroleum jelly | 1 | — | — | — |
| Total | 107 | 14 | 392 | 14 |