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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
Tottenham 1950
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Tottenham]
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The Public Control Department of the Middlesex County Council has supplied the following information on food and drugs sampling in the borough during 1950:-
| Milk, new | 175 |
| Adrenalin Cream | 1 |
| Apple Tart | 1 |
| Brawn | 1 |
| Cake Mixture | 1 |
| Cheese Cake | 1 |
| Chips | 1 |
| Chocolate Roll | 1 |
| Coffee & Chicory Essence | 1 |
| Cream Cakes, etc. | 11 |
| Crisp | 1 |
| Crunchy | 1 |
| Curry Powder | 1 |
| Drinking Chocolate | 1 |
| Dripping | 1 |
| Egg Square | 1 |
| Fancy Cakes | 12 |
| Fish Cake | 1 |
| Fish & Chips | 1 |
| Fish Paste | |
| Gelatine | 1 |
| Gin | 5 |
| Honey Fruit Lumps | 1 |
| Ice Cream | 1 |
| Jellies | 2 |
| Lemon Curds | 3 |
| Liquid Paraffin | 1 |
| Meat Products | 9 |
| Meringue | 1 |
| Mince Pie | 1 |
| Non-brewed Condiment | 1 |
| Pastry | 1 |
| Pressed Meats, various | 5 |
| Salami | 1 |
| Sausages & Sausage Meat | 34 |
| Salad Cream | 1 |
| Sausages, breakfast | |
| " Liver | 1 |
| " Luncheon | 5 |
| Sausage Roll | 1 |
| Sieved Apples & Sugar | 1 |
| Steak & Kidney Pie | 2 |
| Smoked Haddock | 2 |
| Synthetic Cream | 1 |
| Tinned Ham | 1 |
| Veal & Ham Pie | 1 |
| Vinegar, malt | 1 |
| Whisky | 29 |
| White Pepper | 2 |
| Total | 467 |