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 | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
Number taken | Number adulterated | Number taken | Number adu11erated | |
B/f. | 197 | 4 | 103 | 4 |
Lemon Cheese | 1 | - | - | - |
Lemon Juice | 1 | - | - | - |
Lemon Pie Pilling | 2 | - | - | - |
Macaroni | 1 | - | - | - |
Margarine | 2 | - | 3 | - |
Marmalade | 10 | - | 2 | - |
Meat Paste | 4 | - | 1 | - |
Meat Pie | 1 | - | - | - |
Milk | 55 | - | 138 | - |
Milk (Sterilised) | 20 | 1 | - | - |
Mincemeat | 3 | - | - | - |
Mixed Peel | 1 | - | - | - |
Mixed Spice | 5 | - | - | - |
Mixed Vegetables | - | - | 1 | 1 |
Mustard | 4 | - | 1 | - |
Nesquick | 1 | - | - | - |
Non Brewed Condiment | 11 | - | - | - |
Nut Oil | 1 | - | - | - |
Orange Drink | 1 | - | 1 | - |
Pea Nut Butter | - | - | 1 | - |
Pease Pudding | 1 | - | - | - |
Peeled Tomatoes | - | - | 1 | - |
Pepper | 15 | - | 1 | - |
Pickles | 1 | - | - | - |
Pineapple Chunks | - | - | 1 | - |
Processed Peas | - | - | 1 | - |
Rice Creamola | 1 | - | - | - |
Rum | 4 | - | - | - |
Salad Cream | 1 | - | - | - |
Salmon | - | - | 1 | - |
Sauce | 11 | - | 2 | - |
Sausages (Beef) | 7 | 6 | - | |
Sausages (Pork) | 12 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
Semolina | 1 | - | 1 | - |
Soup Powder | 1 | - | 1 | - |
Sponge Mixture | 4 | - | - | - |
Stoned Dates | - | - | 1 | - |
Suet | 2 | - | 3 | - |
Sugar | - | - | 1 | - |
Sunny Spread | 1 | - | 1 | - |
Sweets | 1 | - | 3 | - |
Table Salt | - | - | 1 | - |
Tea | 3 | - | 2 | - |
Tinned Garden Peas | - | - | 1 | - |
Tizer | - | - | 1 | - |
Unsalted Matzo | 1 | - | - | - |
Vegetable Macedoine | 1 | - | - | - |
Vegetable Oil | 1 | - | - | - |
Vegetable Soup Mixture | 1 | - | - | - |
Vesop | 1 | - | - | - |
Vinegar | 3 | - | - | - |
Vinegar (Malt) | 4 | - | - | - |
Wafer Sticks | - | - | 1 | - |
Whisky | 26 | - | - | |
Totals | 425 | 6 | 285 | 6 |