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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
Lambeth 1900
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth, The Vestry of the Parish of]
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Shewing percentage of different adulterated Samples during 1900 and in the previous ten years.
| Year. | No. of Samples Analysed. | No. of Samples adulterated. | Percentage of Samples adulterated | No. of Summonses issued. | No. of Convictions. | No. of Cautions. | Penalties. | Costs. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| s. | d. | s. | d. | |||||||||
| 1900 | 603 | 73 | 12.1 | 57 | 52 | 10 | 104 | 10 | 0 | 42 | 6 | 6 |
| 1899 | 600 | 65 | 10.8 | 52 | 49 | 6 | 76 | 10 | 0 | 29 | 12 | 6 |
| 1898 | 602 | 74 | 12.3 | 57 | 54 | 6 | 68 | 0 | 0 | 34 | 9 | 0 |
| 1897 | 546 | 41 | 7.5 | 7 | 21 | 2 | 48 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 5 | 0 |
| 1896 | 549 | 66 | 1202 | 66 | 60 | 2 | 93 | 0 | 0 | 35 | 11 | 6 |
| 1895 | 500 | 87 | 17.4 | 64 | 62 | 23 | 149 | 15 | 0 | 41 | 18 | 0 |
| 1894 | 495 | 107 | 21.6 | 81 | 79 | 26 | 199 | 0 | 0 | 45 | 11 | 0 |
| 1893 | 498 | 120 | 24.09 | 79 | 79 | 41 | 207 | 17 | 0 | 48 | 19 | 0 |
| 1802 | 332 | 65 | 19.5 | 43 | 43 | 22 | 66 | 8 | 6 | 32 | 9 | 0 |
| 1891 | 292 | 48 | 16.4 | 25 | 24 | 23 | 28 | 13 | 6 | 15 | 1 | 0 |
| 1890 | 300 | 40 | 13.3 | 30 | 28 | 10 | 39 | 1 | 0 | 19 | 6 | 0 |
| Average of 10 years 1890-99 | 471.4 | 71.3 | 15.1 | 50.4 | 50.1 | 16.1 | 97 | 14 | 6 | 32 | 14 | 2 |
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Inspector Perrin commenced his duties on February 2lst, 1898, vice Inspector Wiggs, who did the work
from August, 1892, to November, 1897.