[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Carshalton].

  • Carshalton (Surrey, England). Urban District Council.
Date:
[1955]
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Credit: [Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Carshalton]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Food and Drugs Act, 1938 The following 344 samples were submitted to the Public Analyst with the following results: Article No. Adulter ated or other wise irre gular Article No. Adulter ated or other wise irre gular Baking Powder 1 Ice Lolly Mixture 5 Beans (Tinned) 1 Jam 1 Beer 1 Ketchup, Tomato 1 Biscuits 1 Margarine 2 Blackberries in Syrup 1 Marmalade 1 Blackcurrant Syrup 1 Milk 230 4 Breadcrumbs 1 Mincemeat 1 Butter 1 Mineral Water 5 Cake 2 Mint Jelly 1 Cereal (Baby Food) 1 Mixtures (Cake) 1 Cheese Spread 1 Oranges 1 Chicken Rissole 1 Orange Drink 1 Cider ] Olive Oil 1 Chocolate Roll 1 Paste (Meat) 2 Cocoa 1 Peanut Butter 1 Cocoanut Sugar 1 Pepper (White) 1 Coffee and Chicory Piccalilli 1 Extract 1 Pie, Fruit 1 Coffee 1 Pie, Meat 1 Cordial 1 Pork Roll 1 Cream 1 Pudding (Xmas) 1 Crabmeat 1 Salad Cream 1 Custard Powder Sauce 2 Dripping Sausage, Beef 1 Fish Cakes 1 Sausage, Pork 3 Flour (Self Raising) 1 Sausage, Liver 1 Flour (Plain) 1 Semolina 1 Gelatine I Steak and Kidney Glucose 1 Pudding 1 Glucose Drink Soup 2 Halibut Oil Capsules Suet 2 Health Salts 1 1 Sweets 7 Herbs (Mixed) Vegetable Fat 1 Honey 1 Vinegar (Malt) 2 Horseradish 1 Vitamin Capsules 2 1 Ice Cream 11 Yeast and Vegetable Ice Lolly 8 Extract 1 The following six samples were found to be adulterated or other wise irregular: Milk—Four Samples These were all from different vendors and were deficient in solids other than fat to the extent of 1% in three instances and 2% in the fourth. The explanation given in all was the same—that at that parti cular lime of the year, viz: February/March, milk direct from the cow 41
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