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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Description of Article | Formal samples | Informal samples | ||
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Number taken | Number adulterated | Number taken | Number adulterated | |
Acetic Acid | 2 | - | - | - |
Apples | - | - | 1 | |
Aspro | 1 | - | - | - |
Baking powder | 4 | 2 | - | |
Bi-carbonate of Soda | 2 | - | - | |
Bisto | 3 | - | - | - |
Blanc Mange Powder | 1 | - | - | |
Butter | 39 | 1 | 12 | 1 |
Cake Mixture | 1 | - | - | - |
Cereal | 3 | - | - | - |
Cheese | 1 | - | 3 | - |
Cinnamon | 2 | - | - | - |
Cocoa | 9 | - | 6 | - |
Coffee and Chicory Essence | 16 | - | 4 | - |
Coffee Essence | 1 | - | - | - |
Coffee | - | - | 2 | - |
Cooking Pat | 5 | - | - | - |
Cornflour | 1 | - | - | - |
Cream | - | - | 2 | - |
Curry Powder | 2 | - | - | - |
Custard Powder | 4 | - | - | - |
Dessicated Coconut | 2 | - | - | - |
Double Cream | 1 | - | - | - |
Dripping | 1 | - | 2 | - |
Pish Paste | 8 | - | - | - |
Flour | 3 | - | 1 | - |
Flour (Cake) | 2 | - | - | - |
French Mustard | 1 | - | - | - |
Fruit Pie | 2 | - | - | - |
Frying Oil | 1 | - | - | - |
Frying Sausages | 1 | - | - | - |
Gin | 5 | - | - | - |
Ground Almonds | - | - | 1 | - |
Ground Ginger | 1 | - | - | - |
Herbs (Mixed) | 1 | - | - | - |
Honey | 3 | - | - | - |
Horseradish with Beet | - | - | 1 | - |
Ice Cream | 6 | 1 | 49 | 1 |
Ice Lolly | - | - | 8 | - |
Ice Cream Mixture | - | - | 1 | - |
Jam | 10 | - | 2 | - |
Jelly | 17 | - | 3 | - |
Jelly Cream | 1 | - | ||
Ketchup | 1 | - | - | - |
Laxative | 1 | - | - | - |
Lemon Curd | 2 | - | - | - |
Luncheon Meat | 1 | - | - | - |
Margarine | 20 | - | 9 | - |
Marmalade | 4 | - | 1 | - |
Meat Paste | 16 | - | - | - |
Milk | 29 | - | 153 | 2 |
Milk (Sterilised) | 1 | - | - | - |
Mincemeat | 1 | - | 2 | |
Mint | 1 | - | - | - |
Mint Sauce | 1 | - | - | - |
Mixed Peel | 1 | - | - | - |
C/f. | 242 | 2 | 265 | 4 |