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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
Mitcham 1953
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Mitcham]
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FOOD AND DRUGS ACT, 1938
Eighty-throe formal samples were taken as follows.—
| Milk | 47 | Ice-Cream | 7 |
| Batter Mixture | 1 | Orange Squash | 1 |
| Beef Sausages | 3 | Vitamin Pellets | 1 |
| Chippolata, Pork | 1 | Vitamin Capsules | 1 |
| Beef Sausage Meat | 1 | Plum Jam | 1 |
| Youngberry Jam | 1 | Raspberry Jam | 1 |
| Ground Almonds | 1 | Vitamin B.l. Powder | 1 |
| Pork Brawn | 1 | Cough Syrup | 1 |
| Ruby Wine | 1 | Strawberry Jelly Creams | 1 |
| Synthetic Cream Powder | 1 | Malt Vinegar | 1 |
| Sweetened Cake Flour with Egg | 1 | Honey, Glycerine & Blackcurrant Children's Cough Mixture | 1 |
| Pork Sausages | 3 | ||
| Processed Cheese | 1 | Pork Sausage Meat | 1 |
| Pork Pie | 1 | Popcorn | 1 |
| Iced Fancies | 1 | Meat Pudding | 1 |
| Processed Cheese | 2 | Beef Steak Pie | 1 |
| Chocolate Sponge Mixture | 1 | Flour | 2 |
| Dressed Crab | 1 | Medicinal Glucose | 2 |
| Welsh Rarebit | 1 | Single Cream | 3 |
| Cheese and Celery Spread | 1 | Double Cream | 5 |
| Cheese Spread | 1 | Glucose Drink | 1 |
| Full Cream Sweetened Condensed Milk | 2 | Swiss Roll | 2 |
| Bicarbonate of Soda | 1 | ||
| Harlequine Roll | 1 | Medicinal Liquid Paraffin | 1 |
| Cochineal Colouring | 1 | Sulphur and Yeast Tablets | 1 |
| Tomato Puree | 1 | Steak Pudding | 1 |
| Marshmallow Creme | 1 | Sterilised Cream | 1 |
| Salmon and Shrimp Paste | 2 | Junior Aspirin | 1 |
| Horseradish Relish | 1 | Savoury Spread with | |
| Cooked Meat | 1 | Gorgonzola | 1 |