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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SAMPLING
A wide variety of food samples were taken and submitted to the Public Analyst. The results are set out in the table below:-
Description | Formal | Samples | Informal | Samples |
---|---|---|---|---|
Number Taken | Number Non-Genuine | Number Taken | Number Non-Genuine | |
Almonds, Ground | 1 | - | - | - |
Baby Foods | 1 | - | 7 | - |
Baking Powder | 1 | - | 1 | - |
Barley, Pearl | 1 | - | - | - |
Bicarbonate of Soda | - | - | 1 | - |
Biscuits, Cakes, etc. | 25 | 1 | 10 | - |
Bread | 14 | - | - | - |
Bread and Butter | 1 | - | - | - |
Butter | 11 | - | - | - |
Cake mixtures | 10 | - | 6 | - |
Cereals | 3 | 1 | 2 | - |
Cheese | 11 | 3 | 7 | - |
Chocolate drinks | 12 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
Cocoa | - | - | 2 | - |
Coconut | 2 | - | 1 | - |
Coffee | 12 | - | 3 | - |
Colouring matter | 1 | - | 1 | - |
Cornflour | - | - | 2 | - |
Cream | 2 | - | 3 | - |
Curry Powder | 5 | - | 1 | - |
Custard Powder | 1 | - | - | - |
Dairy Produce | 1 | 1 | - | - |
Desserts | 7 | - | 6 | 1 |
Drinks, cordials, minerals, etc | 57 | 3 | 16 | 1 |
Drugs and Medicinal Preparations | 48 | 1 | 6 | - |
Fat, cooking | 5 | - | 2 | - |
Fish cakes | - | - | 1 | - |
Fish, canned | 12 | 1 | 21 | 1 |
Fish, fresh | 4 | - | 3 | - |
Flavourings | 10 | 2 | 4 | - |
Flour | 5 | 1 | 5 | - |
Fruit, canned | 11 | 1 | 16 | - |
Fruit, dried | 8 | - | 1 | - |
Fruit, fresh | 3 | - | 1 | - |
Fruit Juice | 6 | - | 3 | 1 |
Garlic Powder | 1 | - | - | - |
Gin | 2 | - | - | - |
Glace cherries | 2 | - | - | - |
Gravy Powder | 3 | - | 2 | - |
Honey | 5 | - | 2 | - |
Ice Cream | 2 | - | - | - |
Ice Cream Powder | 1 | - | 1 | - |
Ice Lollies | 2 | - | 1 | - |
Jellies | 10 | - | 17 | 1 |
Margarine | 8 | 1 | - | - |
Marmalade | 1 | - | 1 | - |
Marzipan | 4 | - | 1 | - |