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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Food and Drugs Act, 1938
The following 340 samples were submitted to the Public Analyst with the following results:
Article | No. | Adulterated or otherwise irregular | Article | No. | Adulterated or otherwise irregular |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Almonds, Ground | 1 | Milk | 224 | ||
Baking Powder | 2 | Milk Drink | 1 | ||
Beans, Butter | 1 | Milk of Magnesia | 1 | ||
Beans in Tomato Sauce | 1 | Mincemeat | 1 | ||
Blackcurrant Juice | 1 | Nuts | 1 | ||
Blackcurrant Syrup | 1 | Olive Oil | 1 | ||
Blackcurrant Syrup— | Oranges | 1 | |||
Ribena | 1 | Orange Squash | 1 | ||
Blancmange Powder | 1 | Paste, Fish | 1 | ||
Bread | 1 | Paste, Ham and Other Meat | 1 | ||
Butter | 2 | ||||
Cake | 1 | Pearl Barley | 1 | ||
Cake Mix | 1 | 1 | Peas, Garden | 1 | |
Cake and Pudding Mixture | 1 | Peas, Processed | 1 | ||
Pease Pudding | 1 | ||||
Cocoa | 1 | Pickles | 1 | ||
Coffee | 1 | Pie Steak | 1 | ||
Coffee & Chicory | 1 | Pineapple (Canned) | 1 | ||
Cordial | 2 | Potato Crisps | 1 | ||
Crab Meat | 1 | Pudding Mix | 1 | ||
Currants | 1 | Pudding, Christmas | 1 | ||
Drink Crystals | 1 | Raising Powder | 1 | ||
Dripping, Beef | 3 | Rice, Baby | 1 | ||
Evaporated Milk | 1 | Rice, Creamed | 1 | ||
Flour | 1 | Rose Hip Syrup | 1 | ||
Flour, Self-Raising | 1 | Salad Cream | 1 | ||
Fruit Salad | 1 | Salmon, Pink | 1 | ||
Gelatine | 1 | Salt | 1 | ||
Glucose Barley Sugar | 1 | Sauce | 1 | ||
Glucose Drink | 1 | Sausage, Beef | 1 | ||
Grapefruit Squash | 1 | Sausage, Pork | 2 | ||
Groats, Processed | 1 | Sausage Meat, Pork | 1 | ||
Horseradish | 1 | Semolina | 2 | ||
Horseradish Relish | 1 | Soup | 2 | ||
Honey | 1 | Spice, Ground Mixed | 1 | ||
Ice Cream | 10 | Steak, Stewed | 1 | ||
Ice Lolly | 5 | Stuffing, Sage & Onion | 1 | ||
Ice Lolly Mixture | 5 | Suet | 3 | 1 | |
Jam .. | 1 | Sugar Icing | 1 | ||
Lemon Curd | 1 | Tenderising Salt | 1 | ||
Macaroni with Cheese Sauce | 1 | Tonic Syrup | 1 | ||
Sweets | 7 | 1 | |||
Margarine | 1 | Wheat Embryo | 1 | ||
Meat, Minced | 1 | ||||
Medicant, Cough | 1 |
The following three samples were found to be adulterated or otherwise
irregular:
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