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Tottenham 1951
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Tottenham]
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Food Sampling
The Public Control Department of the Middlesex County Council
has supplied the following information of food and drugs sampling
in the borough during 1951:-
FOOD AND DRUGS ACT, 1938
List of samples procured in the Borough of Tottenham during the year 1951
| Article | Total samples procured | Unsatisfactory |
|---|---|---|
| Milk, various | 270 | 9 |
| Beef and Carrots, tinned | 1 | - |
| Cakes, various | 47 | - |
| Chocolate Liqueurs | l | 1 |
| Cake Mixture | l | - |
| Coffee & Chicory Essence | l | - |
| Condensed Milk | 1 | - |
| Cooked Meat | 7 | - |
| Cooking Oil | 8 | - |
| Cream | 2 | - |
| Curry Powder | 2 | - |
| Dripping | 3 | |
| Drugs | 10 | - |
| Egg Vermicelli | 1 | - |
| Fish, various | 22 | 3 |
| Fish Cake and Paste | 4 | - |
| Flour | 1 | - |
| Fruit Squash | 3 | - |
| Horserelish | 1 | - |
| Ice Cream | 2 | - |
| Jam | 1 | - |
| Jelly | 1 | - |
| Lemon Curd | 4 | - |
| Meat Pie | 3 | - |
| Milk Chocolate | l | - |
| Mustard | l | - |
| Peas, tinned | l | - |
| Pepper Compound | 2 | - |
| Raisin Wine | 1 | l |
| Salad Cream | 1 | - |
| Sausages | 32 | - |
| carried forward | 436 | 14 |