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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

Wandsworth 1906

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]

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Report—Public Analyst.

Table: Name of Article.Nature and extent of Impurity.

Name of Article.

Nature and extent of Impurity.

MilkCase No. 4446 per cent, milk fat deficient
Milk” 4495 ”
Milk” 45822 ”
Milk” 49610 ”
Milk” 5389 ”
Milk” 54422 ”
Milk” 6108 ”
Milk” 6745 ”
Milk” 26920 per cent, milk fat deficient and 5 per cent, extraneous water
Milk” 43717 per cent, milk fat deficient and 5 per cent, extraneous water
Milk” 6224.5 grains Boric Acid per pint
Milk” 7222.8 ”
Milk72615 ”
Butter” 5396 per cent. Margarine
Butter” 6837 ”
Butter” 8897 ”
Butter (on bread)” 11798 ”
Butter (on bread)” 12698 ”
Butter” 15995 ”
Butter” 24991 ”
Butter” 26890 ”
Butter” 54194 ”
Butter” 54593 ”
Butter” 57994 ”
Butter” 73756 ”
Butter75196 ”
Butter” 77190 ”
Butter” 78590 ”
Butter” 78696 ”
Butter” 85390 ”
Butter” 89898 ”
Butter” 7584.3 per cent. excess of moisture

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These figures show that io'26 per cent, of the milk samples,
and 6'62 per cent, of the butter samples, were adulterated. This
indicates in the case of the milk samples a falling off from 7.25
per cent, adulteration in 1905; but in the case of the butter, an
improvement, the percentage of impurity in 1905 being 8.96.