Report for the year 1909 of the Medical Officer of Health page 54

Holborn 1909

Report for the year 1909 of the Medical Officer of Health

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TABLE XI.

LegalProceedings under Sale ofFood andDrugsActs.

Date.	Name.	Premises.	Offence.	Result.
1909.
Jan. 5th	E. Edwards	16, Little Earl Street	Selling butter containing 33 per cent. of foreign fat	Defendant convicted and fined £2 and 12s 6d. costs.
„ 18th	J. K. Enfield	24, Great Queen Street	Selling milk 30 6 per cent. deficient in fat	Summons withdrawn on defendant giving undertaking not to repeat offence and paying 10s. 6d. costs
May 11th	Mrs. Green	5, Chapel Street	Selling Coffee containing 35 per cent. of chicory	Defendant convicted and fined £1 and 2s. 6d. costs.
June 1st and 8th	David Greig	86, Leather Lane	Selling milk 15.3 per cent. deficient in fat	Warranty proved. Summons dismissed.
July 23rd	Horstead, Wm.	5, Coptic Street	Selling milk 7 per cent. deficient in fat	Defendant convicted and fined £1 and 12s. 6d. costs.
Aug.31st	Greening, Mrs.	29, Newton Street	Selling margarine unlabelled	Defendant convicted and fined £1 and 12s. 6d. costs.
Nov. 6th	Alice Twinn	4, Emerald Street	Selling milk 6.3 per cent. deficient in fat	Defendant convicted and fined £1 and £1. 8s. costs.
„ 26th	Hannah J. Roberts	17, Red Lion Street	Selling butter containing 80 per cent. of foreign fat	Defendant convicted and fined £1 and 12s. 6d. costs.

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TABLE XII.

Meteorot.ogy of London, 1909.

(Deduced from observations at Greenwich under the superintendence of the Astronomer Royal.)

1909.	Air Temperature.				Bright Sunshine.			Rain and other forks of Precipitation.
	Mean of—		Mean of A. and B.	Difference from Average. 1	Total observed.	Difference from Average. *	Per cent. of possible.	Total fall.	Difference from Average. *
	a.	B.
	Maximum	Minimum.
	o	o	O	o	hrs.	hrs.	%	ins.	ins.
January	43.0	340	38.5	+ 0.1	61	+ 20	23	0.77	-1.11
Febuary	43.5	30.9	37.2	- 2.6	91	+ 34	33	0.63	- 0.85
March	45.5	33.8	39.6	- 2.9	75	- 24	21	3.08	+ 1.66
April	60.6	38.6	49.6	+ 1.5	250	+ 103	60	1.64	+ 0.07
May	64.8	41.7	53.2	- 0.6	326	+ 140	68	1.24	- 0.68
June	62.4	47.2	54.8	- 5 5	107	- 90	22	3-67	+ 1*63
July	70.1	52-5	61.3	- 2.4	179	- 57	36	3.16	+ 0.76
August	72.9	62.5	62.7	- 0.2	228	+ 18	50	1.80	- 0.54
September	62.8	47.5	55.2	- 3.0	106	- 49	28	2.48	+ 0.33
October	59.5	45.6	52.5	+ 2.1	91	- 4	27	4.06	+ 1.28
November	47.2	36.2	41.7	- 1.7	78	+ 30	29	0.79	- 1.43
December	45.2	350	40.1	+ 0 5	50	+ 17	21	2.40	+ 0.57
Year	56.5	41.3	43.9	- 1.2	1642	+ 140	37	25.72	+ 1.60

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* The averages used are obtained from observations extending over 65 years for Rain and Temperature.
and 10 years for Sunshine.