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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 1911
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, City of]
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| Article of Food. | Number of Samples Purchased. | Genuine. (Inferior in brackets.) | Adulterated. | Prosecutions. | Convictions. | Withdrawn or Dismissed. | Fines. | Costa. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| £ | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. | |||||||
| Brawn | 3 | 3 | ||||||||||
| Ham, cooked and uncooked | 19 | 18 | 1 | |||||||||
| Meats (various), potted:— | ||||||||||||
| Veal, meat, chicken and tongue,chicken, chicken, ham and tongue, lunch tongue, turkey and ham, ham and tongue, corned beef, wild duck, black pudding, bacon (one sample each) | 12 | 12 | ||||||||||
| Fish (cod, haddock, and plaice) | 31 | 20 | 11 | |||||||||
| Salmon paste | 1 | — | 1 | |||||||||
| Sardines | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Beans, preserved | 3 | . 2 | 1 | |||||||||
| Peas, preserved | 12 | 12 | ||||||||||
| Mustard | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Vinegar | 11 | 7 (2) | 2 | 1 | 1 | — | 0 | 10 | 0 | 12 | 6 | |
| Oil, olive | 51 | 45 (2) | 4 | 2 | 2 | — | 5 | 0 | 3 | 15 | 6 | |
| do. Lucca,. | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Sugar, brown | 17 | 15 | 2 | |||||||||
| do. cane | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| do. Demerara cane | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| do. Demerara | 5 | 4 (1) | ||||||||||
| do. yellow crystals | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Jam | 16 | 16 | ||||||||||
| Honey | 9 | 9 | ||||||||||
| Totals | 1,800 | 1,517 (115) | 168 | 67 | 41 | 26 | 65 | 7 | 29 | 13 | 6 | |
Summary proceedings were ordered to be taken in 69 instances, but
2 of these, upon the suggestion of the Solicitor, were not proceeded with ;
21 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 4 instances, and no action was taken
with regard to 74 samples which did not conform (3 of these were test
purchases and not samples taken officially, the others deviated only
slightly from the standard).
Milk.—911. samples of ordinary milk were taken during the year.
Of these 77 (8'4 per cent.) were reported by the Analysts to be below
the standard of the Board of Agriculture, and 35 samples were just on
the border line, making a total of 12-2 per cent. of the samples. The
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