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Hackney 1956

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]

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INFORMAL
Baking Powder
Cream Cheese
Bread and Butter
Bread and Butter
Bread and Butter
Bread and Butter
Beef Sausages
Cream Tomato Soup
Beef Sausages
Nature and extent
of adulteration
13.8% deficient in available
Carbon Di-oxide.
9.7% deficient in milk
fat.
Pat contained 94% fat
other than butter fat.
Pat contained 96% fat
other than butter fat.
Pat contained 95% fat
other than butter fat.
Pat contained 58% fat
other than butter fat.
Contained an excess of 70
p.p.m Sulphur Di-oxide
and only 47% meat.
Contained only 1% fat and
did not comply with code
of practice for cream
soups.
Contained only 44% meat.
Action taken.
Formal sample taken
(see above).
No legal standard.
Formal sample taken
(see above).
Formal sample taken
- satisfactory.
Formal sample taken
(see above).
Formal sample taken
(see above).
Formal sample taken
- satisfactory.
Formal sample taken
- satisfactory.
Formal sample taken
(see above).
PHARMACY AND POISONS ACT, 1933 SECTION 18. (Prohibitions and
Regulations with respect to sale of poisons) enacts that except in the
case of an authorised seller of poisons selling from premises duly
registered under Part I of the Act, no person shall sell any poison
included in Part II of the Poisons List, unless his name is entered in a
local authority's list of sellers of such poisons. The names of 147
persons and the addresses of their business premises were entered in the
authority's register for the sale of Part II Poisons at the end of the
year The main business of these sellers wast:-
Grocer 105
Hardware Store 26
Drug Store 7
Hairdresser 2
Disinfectant Manufacturer 1
Disinfectant Merchant 2
Mill Furnisher 1
Soap Manufacturer 1
Seed Merchant 1
Turpentine Bottlers 1
PHARMACY AND MEDICINES ACT, 1941. The provisions of this Act which
a local authority has power to enforce, relate to the prohibition of the
Publication of advertisements concerning certain diseases, to the prohibition
of the publication of any advertisement relating to abortion, and
to the disclosure of certain information as to the composition of
Medicines.