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 | |
Apple Pie | - | - | - | |
Baked Beans | 2 | - | ||
Baked Farfols | - | - | - | |
Baking Powder | - | - | ||
Beans in Tomato Sauce | - | - | 2 | - |
Beef Sausage Meat | - | - | 1 | - |
Bev | - | - | - | |
Bi-carbonate of Soda | - | - | - | - |
Bisto | 2 | - | - | |
Bourn-Vita | - | - | - | |
Butter | 69 | - | 11 | 1 |
Cake Mixture | 3 | - | - | - |
Canned Brown Ale | - | 1 | ||
Caraway Seeds | 1 | - | - | - |
Cheese (Cream) | - | - | - | 1 |
Cheese Spread | - | 1 | ||
Calamine Lotion | - | - | ||
Cinnamon | - | - | ||
Cocoa | 5 | - | 1 | - |
Codeine Tablets | 1 | - | - | |
Coffee and Chicory Extract | 9 | 11 | - | |
Coffee and Chicory | 1 | - | 1 | - |
Coffee | 3 | - | - | |
Cooking Pat | 1 | - | 1 | |
Cornflour | 3 | - | - | |
Condensed Milk | - | 1 | ||
Cream | - | - | 3 | - |
Cream of Tomato Soup | 1 | - | - | |
Curry Powder | 2 | - | - | |
Custard Powder | 2 | - | - | |
Drinking Chocolate | - | 3 | ||
Extra Rise Self Raising Flour | 1 | 1 | - | - |
Fillets of Anchovy | - | 1 | - | |
Fish Paste | 15 | - | 3 | 1 |
Flour | 2 | - | - | |
Flour (Batter) | 2 | - | ||
Flour (Cake) | 3 | - | - | |
Flour (Self Raising) | 6 | - | - | - |
Gee's Linctus | 1 | - | - | |
Gin | 6 | - | ||
Gravy Powder | 1 | - | - | - |
Gravy Salt | 1 | - | - | - |
Ground Almonds | 2 | - | - | |
Ground Cloves | 1 | - | - | |
Ground Nutmeg | 3 | - | - | |
Honey | 1 | - | 2 | - |
Horse-radish Sauce | 3 | - | ||
Ice-cream | 9 | 1 | 34 | 1 |
Ice-lolly | - | - | 1 | |
Instant Whip | 1 | - | - | - |
Jam | 11 | - | 8 | - |
Jelly (Table) | 10 | - | 6 | - |
Ketchup | 3 | - | - | |
Lard | 3 | - | 2 | - |
C/f. | 197 | 4 | 103 | 4 |