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

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

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    31 SECTION E. INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OF FOOD. Food and Drugs Administration. It will be noted that during the year 351 samples were taken by your staff and of these 22 were in one way or another unsatisfactory. On analysis the reasons for regarding the 22 samples as unsatisfactory one finds a wide variation of cause but nevertheless there is sound evidence—taking our results as a whole—for having confidence in the standard of products sold in this area. Our programme generally followed the lines noted in previous years and embraced supervision over a full scale of food and drugs. In the course of sampling the Sanitary Inspectors have checked the labelling of food and drugs and other items relating to substitution of food by products of inferior quality and preservatives in food etc. It is apparent that the public is aware of the assistance which this Department can render to them in investigating and dealing with food complaints. It may be taken that every complaint, no matter how seemingly trivial, is the subject of a full enquiry, although the actual mode of dealing finally with any complaint depends upon the merits of that particular complaint and relatively seldom deserves prosecution. I must express my indebtedness to the Public Analysts, Mr. George Taylor, O.B.E., F.R.I.C., and Dr. J. Hubert Hamence, M.Sc., Ph.D., F.R.I.C., for their helpful and ready advice in the many difficulties which necessarily crop up in this highly specialised branch of our work. ARTICLES Number of Samples examined No. found to be genuine. No. found to be adulterated or under-standard etc Almonds, ground 1 1 — Arrowroot 1 1 — Baked Beans with Pork Sausages 1 1 — Beef Chipolatas 1 1 — Blanc Mange Powder 1 1 — Bun Mixture 1 1 — Butter 1 1 — Butter Drops 1 1 — Buttered Brazils 1 1 — Butter Mints 1 1 — Cake Flour 1 1 — Cake Flour Mixture 1 1 — Cake Mixture 2 2 — Cheese Spread 3 3 — Chocolate Sponge Cake 1 1 — Chocolate Spread 1 1 — Christmas Pudding 2 2 — Cinnamon Chips 1 1 — Cockles 1 1 — Coconut, dessicated 1 1 — Coconut, sugared 1 1 — Coffee 1 1 —