Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Carshalton]
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Ice Cream.
The sampling of Ice Cream was carried on and the following table gives the results:—
No. of Samples. | Grade. | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
139 | 09 | 33 | 28 | 9 |
Meat and Other Foods.
Meat is supplied from the Ministry of Food depots outside the
district. There are 21 premises on which pigs are known to be kept.
There was no private slaughtering during the year.
Twenty-six other foodstuffs were submitted for bacteriological
examination in cases of suspected food poisoning. The tests which gave
significant results are referred to in the Section of this Report dealing
with food poisoning.
Food and Drugs Act, 1938.
The following 307 samples were procured and submitted for
analysis:—
Article. | No. | Adulterated or otherwise irregular. | Article. | No. | Adulterated or otherwise irregular. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Butter | 6 | 1 | Milk, Condensed | 1 | |
Butter, Peanut | 1 | Olive Oil | 1 | ||
"Cherryade" | 1 | Onions, Dried | 1 | ||
Chocolate Cup | 1 | Pastry Mixture | 1 | ||
Chocolate, Drinking | 1 | Popcorns | 1 | ||
Cinnamon, Milled | 1 | Pudding, Christmas | 1 | ||
Cocoa | 2 | Pudding, Mixture | 1 | ||
Coffee & Chicory Essence | 2 | "Quoffy" | 1 | ||
"Crunches, Buttered" | 1 | Saccharine | 1 | ||
Custard Powder | 2 | Salad Dressing | 2 | ||
Extract, Beef | 1 | Sandwich Spread | 1 | ||
Fat, Sweetened | 1 | Sauce | 3 | 1 | |
"Frizzets" | 1 | Sausage, Beef | 3 | 1 | |
Glycerine & Honey | 1 | Sausage, Pork | 1 | ||
"Golden Ruskit" | 1 | Semolina | 2 | ||
Groats | 1 | Sieved Apple with | |||
Ice Cream | 20 | Sugar | 1 | ||
Jam Tart | 1 | Soup | 3 | ||
Jelly | 1 | Sponge Mixture | 2 | ||
Jelly Crystals | 1 | Squash, Grape Fruit | 2 | ||
Lemonade | 1 | Squash, Orange | 1 | ||
Marmalade, Ginger | 1 | Stuffing, Sage & Onion | 1 | ||
Marmalade, Orange "Marmalyn" | 1 | Sugar, Brown | 1 | 1 | |
1 | Sweets, Boiled | 1 | 1 | ||
Meat, Sausage | 3 | 1 | Syrup, Black Currant | 1 | |
Meat, Nut | 1 | Syrup of Figs | 1 | ||
Milk | 208 | 1 | Tea | 2 | |
Milk, Malted | 1 | Vinegar, Malt | 1 | 1 | |
Whisky | 5 | 1 |