[Report 1945] / Medical Officer of Health, St Albans City.

  • St. Albans (England). City Council.
Date:
1945
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Credit: [Report 1945] / Medical Officer of Health, St Albans City. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tonic, ground nutmeg, ground ginger, ground cinnamon, curry powder, mustard sauce, Piccalilli, faggots, break¬ fast or luncheon sausage, sausage meat, “Grosvenor” pie, peroxide of hydrogen, mustard, pepper, Yorkshire pudding, essence of lemon, Edwards soup, coffee and chicory sauce, cake flour, orange squash, shredded suet, tomato soup, sultana chutney. Iris Cocktail, Parish’s chemical food, eucalyptus, tincture of iodine and Friar’s balsam. Fifty-four samples of milk were obtained during the normal course of delivery by the retailer to the con¬ sumer and of these 53 were reported as being genuine— the average results of analysis being:—Fat 3.6%, N.F.S. 8.82%. Nine samples were obtained from milk in course of delivery from producers to retailers, and of these one was deficient in fat to the extent of 34%. Enquiries as to the cause of the deficiency were made and “ Appeal to Cow ” samples were taken at the farm. It was admitted by the producer that it was his usual practice to partly milk the cows and then to allow the calves to finish, and this was undoubtedly the cause of the fat deficiency in the milk. Under the Food and Drugs Act, 1938, “ it is no offence to sell milk below the standard of the Regulations pro¬ vided it is the actual product of the cow, even if the deficiency is brought about by improper feeding or milking.”
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