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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Lewisham 1902

Annual report on the vital statistics and sanitary condition of the Borough of Lewisham and report of the Public Analyst for the year 1902

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117
BUTTER.
Of the 149 samples submitted, 15 or 10 per cent. were
adulterated. More than half the adulterated samples were submitted
during the first quarter.
Table G.

Table: Table G.Showing number of samples of Butter submitted in the Four Quarters of the year1902.

Table G.

Showing number of samples of Butter submitted in the Four Quarters of the year1902.

Quarter.No. of Sample.Adulterated.Percentage Adulterated.
First44920.4
Second6346.34
Third2613.82
Fourth1616.25
Total for year1491510.0

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Prosecutions were successfully instituted in each of the
adulteration cases.
The Sale of Butter Regulations issued by the Board of
Agriculture provide that where the proportion of water in a
sample of butter exceeds 16 per cent. it shall be presumed for
the purposes of the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts, 1875 to 1899