Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, City of]
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Sale of Food and Drugs Acts.
Article of Food. | Number of Samples Purchased. | Genuine. (Inferior in brackets.) | Adulterated. | Prosecutions. | Convictions. | Withdrawn or Dismissed. | Fines. | Costs. | ||||
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£ | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. | |||||||
Milk | 911 | 734 (100) | 77 | 42 | 19 | 23 | 28 | 15 | 0 | 11 | 15 | 0 |
do. separated | 6 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 6 |
do. skimmed | 6 | 5 | 1 | |||||||||
do. and soda water | 3 | 3 | ||||||||||
Cream, fresh | 33 | 17 | 16 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 10 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 6 |
do. potted | 12 | 1 | 11 | |||||||||
do. ice | 14 | 14 | ||||||||||
Butter | 190 | 168 (7) | 15 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 6 |
Margarine | 28 | 28 | — | 7* | 7 | — | 8 | 12 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 0 |
Cheese | 17 | 17 | ||||||||||
do. Midget Gouda | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
do. Pommel cream | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
do. Dutch do. | 2 | 2 | ||||||||||
do. Parmesan. | 2 | 1 (1) | ||||||||||
do. Gruyere | 3 | 3 | ||||||||||
do. Camembert | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
do. Gorgonzola | 7 | 7 | ||||||||||
Lard | 18 | 18 | ||||||||||
Bread and butter | 38 | 38 | ||||||||||
Roll and butter | 3 | 3 | ||||||||||
Bread | 16 | 16 | ||||||||||
Oatmeal | 32 | 32 | ||||||||||
Flour | 22 | 21 | 1 | |||||||||
do. self-raising | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
Tea | 19 | 19 | ||||||||||
Coffee | 29 | 28 | 1 | |||||||||
do. and chicory | 10 | 10 | ||||||||||
Cocoa | 52 | 48 (1) | 3 | |||||||||
Chocolate | 4 | 2 | 2 | |||||||||
do. powder | 4 | 3 | 1 | |||||||||
Pork pies | 33 | 30 | 3 | |||||||||
Steak pies | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
Meat pies | 2 | 2 | ||||||||||
Veal and ham pies | 1 | — | 1 | |||||||||
Veal pate | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
Sausages, beef and pork and smoked | 48 | 41 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | |
Sausages, fish | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
do. German | 9 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 2 | — | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 |
Turkey and tongue | 6 | 6 | ||||||||||
Tongue | 3 | 3 | ||||||||||
Liver paste | 4 | 4 | ||||||||||
Beef paste | 1 | - (1) | ||||||||||
Lobster paste | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
Chicken and ham | 8 | 7 | 1 |
* Samples taken under Sections 6 and 10 of the Margarine Act, 1887.