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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
City of Westminster 1910
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, City of]
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| Number. | Article of Food. | Number of Samples Purchased. | Genuine, (Inferior in brackets.) | Adulterated. | tProsecutions. | Convictions. | Withdrawn or Dismissed. | Fines. | Costs. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| £ | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. | ||||||||
| 42 | Vegetables, preserved | 5 | 1 | 4 | |||||||||
| 43 | Peas, preserved | 9 | 8 | 1 | |||||||||
| 44 | Spinach, preserved | 1 | — | 1 | |||||||||
| 45 | Pepper | 11 | 11 | ||||||||||
| 46 | Oil, olive | 41 | 39 (1) | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | ||||||
| 47 | Ginger, ground | 15 | 15 | ||||||||||
| 48 | Marzipan | 4 | 4 | ||||||||||
| 49 | Jam | 23 | 23 | ||||||||||
| 50 | Marmalade | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| 51 | Honey | 25 | 25 | ||||||||||
| 52 | Ginger beer | 9 | 9 | ||||||||||
| 53 | Lemonade | 2 | 2 | ||||||||||
| 54 | Lime juice cordial | 2 | - | 2 | |||||||||
| 55 | Kaola | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| 56 | Cream soda | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| 57 | Raspberry drink | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| 58 | Cyder | 2 | 2 | ||||||||||
| 59 | Cod liver oil | 9 | 9 | ||||||||||
| 60 | Boric ointment | 9 | 8 | 1 | |||||||||
| Refusal to sell | — | — | — | 1 | 1 | — | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 6 | |
| Totals | 1,800 | 1,469 (126) | 205 | 83 | 53 | 30 | 75 | 5 | 0 | 42 | 16 | 0 | |
Summary proceedings were ordered to be taken in 83 instances, but
1 of these, upon the suggestion of the Solicitor, was not proceeded with,
15 cautions were issued, generally in regard to milk which was slightly
below the minimum standard ; the attention of the vendors was called
to the report of the Analyst in 35 instances, and no action was taken
with regard to 72 samples which did not conform (8 of these were test
purchases and not samples taken officially, the others deviated only
slightly from the standard).
Milk.—947 samples of ordinary milk were taken during the year.
Of these 108 (1140 per cent.) were reported by the Analysts to be below
the standard of the Board of Agriculture, and 63 samples were just on
the border line, making a total of 18.05 per cent. of the samples. The
percentage of adulterated (11.40 per cent.) is rather higher, the increase
being specially noticeable in the north district. The Analysts have
graded the samples submitted to them into four groups:—Good quality,
in which the fat was over 3.8 per cent.; fair quality, in which the fat
was between 3.3 and 3.8 per cent.; and poor or inferior quality, in
which the fat was between 3 per cent. (the official standard) and 33 percent.,
or in which the non.fatty solids were between 8.5 and 8.6 (if the
fat was also below 3.8). Adulterated are those below the official
standard of 3 per cent. for fat and 8.5 for solids not fat.