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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 1966
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]
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A wide variety of food samples were taken and submitted to the Public Analyst. The results are set out in the table opposite.
| Description of Article | Formal samples | Informal samples | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number taken | Number Non-Genuine | Number taken | Number Non-Genuine | |
| Acetic Acid | 2 | 1 | ||
| Aspirin tablets | 8 | |||
| Baby foods | 5 | 1 | ||
| Beer | 9 | |||
| Biscuits, cakes, etc. | 22 | 2 | ||
| Blackcurrant health drink | 5 | 2 | ||
| Bread crumbs | 2 | |||
| Bread and butter | 2 | |||
| Butter | 8 | 24 | 1 | |
| Butter rolls | 2 | 2 | ||
| Cereals | 3 | |||
| Cheese | 6 | |||
| Chicken preparations | 5 | 1 | ||
| Chocolate | 2 | |||
| Cocoa | 1 | |||
| Cocktail wine | 1 | |||
| Coffee | 1 | 9 | ||
| Colouring matter | 3 | |||
| Cream and cream substitutes | 8 | 1 | ||
| Custard powder | 2 | |||
| Drinks, minerals, etc. | 22 | 1 | ||
| Drugs and medical preparations | 1 | 34 | 4 | |
| Pish cakes | 1 | 2 | ||
| Fish, canned | 1 | 7 | ||
| Fresh | 3 | |||
| smoked | 2 | 4 | ||
| Flavouring essences | 7 | |||
| Flour | 25 | |||
| Fruit, canned | 1 | 1 | 50 | 5 |
| dried | 19 | |||
| fresh | 14 | |||
| juice | 9 | |||
| Gin | 4 | |||
| Glycerin | 2 | |||
| Herbs | 22 | |||
| Honey | 4 | |||
| Ice Cream | 1 | 22 | ||
| Ice Lollies | 24 | |||
| Jellies | 15 | 1 | ||
| Lard | 3 | 6 | ||
| Margarine | 5 | 1 | ||
| Marzipan | 5 | |||
| Marmalade | 6 | |||
| Meat, canned | 18 | 5 | ||
| cooked | 1 | |||
| fresh | 4 | |||
| Meat, products | 25 | |||
| Milk | 12 | 79 | 1 | |
| Milk, condensed | 4 | |||
| powder | 3 | |||
| Mincement | 1 | 4 | ||
| Non-brewed condiment | 3 | 2 | ||
| C.F. | 58 | 3 | 550 | 26 |