[Report 1957] / Medical Officer of Health, St Albans City.

  • St. Albans (England). City Council.
Date:
1957
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Credit: [Report 1957] / Medical Officer of Health, St Albans City. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    FOOD AND DRUGS Samples During I9S7, one hundred and forty .samples were submitted to the r4blic Analyst (Mr. C. W. McHugo, F.R.I.C.) for chemical analysis These included seventy-one of milk, three of butter, two each of marine, aspirin tablets, honey, self-raising flour tomato puree, pork sausages and beef sausages and one each of steak and kidney pie, tea, cheese spread, glycerine of thymol, cod liver oil, liquid^ paraffin, cream of tartar, mint sauce, white pepper, coffee and cUcory, non-brewed condiment, lemon curd, marmalade. Strawberry and gooseberry jam, creamed mushrooms, cod roe (tinned), lemon juice (canned), chicken noodle soup, celery soup, boracic acid crystals, Parrish’s Food, dried mint, cheese spread wi ham and onion, Swiss roll, rainbow bar, Welsh rarebit, pork kidneys fcanned) hamburgers (canned), pork pie, beefsteak pie, dried fruit mixedt\oi^^^^ cream (tubes),%hredded beef suet peppermmt cordial, ginger (non-alcoholic), lime juice (unsweetened), lime juice cordial, diabetic lemon squash, diabetic orange squash, orange squash, lemon barley. West Indian marmalade, lime marmalade, orangeade powder, lemonade powder, marzipan substitute, groun^ almonds, nutmeg flavoured compound, Christmas pudding an All the milk samples were obtained formally from roundsmen during delivery to the consumer and all were reported upon^as genuine, reaching the legal presumed standard of fat content (3 /o) and solids not fat (8-5%). It will be seen that the miscellaneous samples, all of wmch were obtained informally, covered a wide range of foodstuffs and all were reported upon as satisfactory by the Public Analyst. WATER SUPPLIES (a) Main Supply Quarterly samples of water from the main supply of the St Albans Water Works Company have been submitted to the Public Analyst for bacteriological examination. Hparpf- Mr McHugo reported that the water possesses a high d g of bacteriological purity and fully complies with the requirements of a supply intended for general and public use. (b) Watercress—Treatment at the Beds All cut cress from two extensive beds in the City is now iinmersed in a large shallow concrete dipping tank which is dosed daily wit a hypochlorite solution before being dispatched to a number of markets throughout the country. ^ The cultivation of cress is dependent upon running water fmm natural sources, in this case from boreholes and river water and it