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 Adulterated Samples. |
---|---|---|---|---|
Almonds, ground | 3 | .. | 3 | .. |
Arrowroot | 1 | .. | 1 | .. |
Beef, minced | 2 | .. | 2 | .. |
Butter | 4 | .. | 4 | .. |
Cheese | 1 | .. | 1 | .. |
Cocoa | 1 | .. | 1 | .. |
Coffee | 1 | .. | 1 | .. |
Curry Powder | 1 | .. | 1 | .. |
Dripping | 3 | .. | .. | |
Fat, cooking | 1 | .. | 1 | .. |
Fruit, (dried), Sultanas | 1 | .. | 1 | .. |
Ginger, ground | 1 | .. | 1 | .. |
Glycerine | 1 | 1 | 100 | |
Grey powder | 1 | 3 | 4 | 75 |
Jam | 2 | .. | 2 | .. |
Margarine | 2 | .. | 2 | . . |
Milk | 195 | 3 | 198 | 1.5 |
Milk, sterilised | .. | 3 | .. | |
Mustard | 1 | .. | 1 | .. |
Nutmeg, ground | 2 | .. | 2 | .. |
Pepper | 4 | .. | 4 | .. |
Pepper, black (whole) | .. | 1 | 1 | 100 |
Sausage | 5 | .. | 5 | .. |
Spirts | 10 | 6 | 16 | 37.5 |
Suet, chopped | . . | 1 | 1 | 100 |
Vinegar | 2 | .. | 2 | .. |
,, Malt | 2 | .. | 2 | .. |
Wine, non-alcoholic | 4 | .. | 4 | . . |
Total Formal Samples | 15 | 268 | 5.6 | |
Aspirin tablets, 5 gr, | .. | 3 | .. | |
Baked beans in tomato sauce | 1 | .. | 1 | .. |
Baking powder | 1 | .. | 1 | .. |
Banana curd | 1 | .. | 1 | .. |
Biscuits and wafers | 3 | .. | 3 | .. |
Biscuits, chocolate | 1 | .. | 1 | .. |
Blancmange | 1 | .. | 1 | .. |
Butter | 5 | .. | 5 | .. |
Cake | 2 | .. | 2 | .. |
Cheese | 6 | .. | 6 | .. |
Cherries, glace | 1 | .. | 1 | .. |
Chocolate | 5 | .. | 5 | .. |
Chocolate, white | 1 | .. | 1 | .. |
Chutney | 2 | .. | 2 | .. |
Cinnamon | 1 | .. | 1 | .. |
Cinnamon powder | 1 | .. | 1 | .. |
Cocoa | 3 | .. | 3 | .. |
Coconut, desiccated | 1 | .. | 1 | .. |
Cod Liver Oil & Malt Extract | 3 | .. | 3 | .. |
Coffee | 1 | .. | 1 | .. |
Carried forward | 43 | .. | 43 |
The following is a statement of the samples purchased and submitted
for analysis during 1936.