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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Hackney 1965
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]
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FOOD SAMPLES (Cont'd.)
| Description of Article | Formal | samples | Informal samples | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number taken | Number Adulterated | Number taken | Number Adulterated | |
| B.F. | 24 | 366 | 15 | |
| Meat, canned | 39 | 1 | ||
| cooked | 1 | 6 | 1 | |
| fresh | 10 | |||
| Medicine, cough liquids | 7 | |||
| cough lozenges | 11 | |||
| Milk | 9 | 1 | 131 | 5 |
| Mousse | 1 | |||
| Mustard, prepared | 1 | |||
| Oil, cooking | 9 | |||
| Paste, fish | 2 | 15 | ||
| meat | 7 | |||
| tomato | 1 | |||
| Peel, cut | 3 | |||
| Pickles | 2 | |||
| Pie-fillings | 5 | |||
| Preserves | 2 | 32 | ||
| Pudding mixture | 1 | |||
| Rice,canned (milk-pudding) | 1 | |||
| ground | 2 | |||
| Rum | 2 | |||
| Salad cream | 1 | |||
| Sandwich spread | 2 | |||
| Sauces | 4 | 12 | ||
| Sausages | 2 | 1 | ||
| Semolina | 2 | |||
| Sleeping tablets | 1 | |||
| Sodium bicarbonate | 1 | |||
| Soup | 7 | |||
| Spices | 2 | 18 | ||
| Sugar | 4 | |||
| Sweets | 12 | |||
| Syrup | 1 | |||
| Tea | 1 | 29 | 3 | |
| Vegetables, canned | 27 | |||
| dried | 1 | |||
| Vinegar | 5 | |||
| Whisky | 2 | |||
| Total | 53 | 1 | 772 | 25 |
DETAILS OF ADULTERATED OR UNSATISFACTORY SAMPLES
| FORMAL Milk | Contained added water | Submitted to Committee:-legal proceedings instituted |
| INFORMAL Flavouring Essence | Insufficient spirit used | Shopkeeper withdrew remainder of stock, and destroyed. No further action. |
| Tea | Contained lead | Manufacturer notified, all stock withdrawn for re-blending |
| Milk | Contained added water | Formal sample taken which proved genuine. |
| Portion of Pork Pie | Contained a small sliver of plastic material | Food complaint - submitted to Committee - warning letter to the manufacturers |