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 Deptford, Metropolitan Borough of]
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Food and Drugs—Samples Taken.
Articles. | Number Genuine. | Number Adulterated. | Total. | Percentage of Adulteration. |
---|---|---|---|---|
Beef, minced | 1 | .. | 1 | .. |
Butter | 5 | .. | 5 | .. |
Chicken and Ham Roll | 2 | .. | 2 | |
Custard and Blanc mange Powder | 2 | .. | 2 | |
Dripping | 1 | .. | 1 | . . |
Jam | 1 | 1 | 2 | 50 0 |
Jelly, Table | 1 | .. | 1 | , , |
Lemonade Powder | 3 | .. | 3 | |
Margarine | 1 | .. | 1 | |
Mercury Pills | 1 | 1 | 100 0 | |
Mercury Ointment | 4 | 4 | 8 | 500 |
Milk | 187 | 2 | 189 | 11 |
Milk, sterilised | 3 | .. | 3 | |
Mustard | 2 | .. | 2 | |
Pepper | 2 | .. | 2 | |
Sausage | 2 | .. | 2 | m # |
„ Preserved | 1 | .. | 1 | |
„ Breakfast | 2 | .. | 2 | |
Spirts | 13 | 1 | 14 | 7*7 |
Vinegar | 3 | .. | 3 | |
„ Malt | 1 | .. | 1 | |
Wine, non-alcoholic | 2 | .. | 2 | . . |
Total Formal Samples | 239 | 9 | 248 | 3 6 |
Apple Juice | 1 | .. | 1 | |
Baking Powder | 1 | .. | 1 | |
Biscuits | 6 | .. | 6 | |
Butter | 5 | .. | 5 | |
Cakes, Sponge | 1 | .. | 1 | |
Cheese | 1 | .. | 1 | |
Chocolate Biscuits and Wafers | 16 | 1 | 17 | 5 9 |
Chocolates | 1 | .. | 1 | .. |
Cocoa | 2 | .. | 2 | .. |
Cod Liver Oil with Malt Extract | 1 | .. | 1 | .. |
Coffee | 1 | .. | 1 | .. |
Coffee Tablets | 2 | .. | 2 | .. |
Coffee and Chicory | 1 | .. | 1 | |
Confectionery | 3 | .. | 3 | .. |
Cooking Fat | 1 | .. | 1 | |
Condensed Milk | 7 | .. | 7 | .. |
Cream | 5 | .. | 5 | .. |
Cream, tinned | 2 | .. | 2 | .. |
Easter Eggs, Chocolate | 6 | .. | 6 | .. |
Egg Yolk | .. | 1 | 1 | .. |
Fish, tinned | 75 | 11 | 86 | 12.8 |
Fish Paste | 2 | .. | 2 | .. |
Fish Sauce Preserve | 1 | .. | 1 | .. |
Carried forward | 141 | 13 | 154 |