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 Hackney]
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The samples taken during the year are described in the following
table, the results of analyses being also shown:-
Formal Samples. | Informal Samples. | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
Description of Article. | Number taken. | Number adulterated. | Number taken. | Number adulterated. |
Almonds (ground) | – | – | 3 | – |
Arrowroot | – | – | 1 | – |
Aspirin tablets | – | – | 1 | – |
Baking powder | 6 | – | – | – |
Brawn | 5 | – | – | – |
Bread | – | – | 1 | – |
Butter | 65 | 1 | 31 | – |
Cherries (crystallised) | 4 | – | – | – |
Cinnamon (ground) | – | – | 1 | – |
Cocoa | 12 | – | 1 | – |
Coffee | 8 | – | – | – |
,, and chicory | 4 | – | – | – |
Corned beef | 8 | – | – | – |
Cordial | – | – | 3 | – |
Cream | 9 | – | – | – |
,, (tinned) | 8 | – | 1 | – |
,, (fruit) | 1 | – | – | – |
Cucumber (pickled) | – | – | 1 | 1 |
Custard powder | – | – | 1 | – |
Dripping | 12 | – | – | – |
Fish paste | 1 | – | 1 | – |
Flour | – | – | 1 | 1 |
Fruit (dried) | 14 | – | – | – |
,, (tinned) | 12 | – | – | – |
Ginger (ground) | – | – | 1 | – |
Ham liquor | – | – | 1 | – |
,, (spiced) | – | – | – | – |
Ice cream | 1 | – | 5 | – |
Jam | 9 | – | 1 | – |
Jelly | – | – | 1 | – |
Lard | 9 | – | – | – |
Malt and cod liver oil | – | – | 1 | – |
Margarine | 30 | – | – | – |
Meat (minced or chopped) | 25 | – | 11 | – |
,, paste | 8 | – | – | |
Milk | 456 | 12 | 57 | – |
,, (sterilised) | 42 | – | – | – |
,, (sweetened condensed skimmed) | 18 | – | 2 | – |
Mincemeat | 6 | – | – | – |
Mint (dried) | – | – | 2 | – |
,, sauce | – | – | 1 | – |
Mustard | 10 | – | – | – |
,, compound | 2 | – | – | – |
Olive oil | 6 | – | 1 | – |
Pastries | 5 | – | 5 | – |
,, (cream) | 1 | – | 2 | – |
Peas (tinned) | 6 | – | – | – |
Pepper | 12 | – | 2 | – |
Pickles | 12 | – | – | – |
Bice (ground) | – | – | 1 | – |
Sago | – | – | 1 | – |
Sardines | – | – | 4 | – |
Sauce | 6 | – | – | – |
Sausages | 15 | – | 7 | – |
,, (luncheon) | 5 | – | – | – |
,, (preserved) | 5 | – | – | – |
Suet (shredded) | 6 | – | – | – |
Sugar | – | – | 7 | – |
Sweets | 12 | – | – | – |
Tapioca | – | – | 1 | – |
Tea | 6 | – | 1 | – |
Vinegar (malt) | 7 | – | – | – |
,, (wood) | 5 | – | 1 | – |
Totals | 895 | 13 | 163 | 2 |