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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
As will be seen from the above Table the average amount of
adulteration detected during the 10 years 1899-1908 was 9.3 per
cent., whereas during 1909 the adulteration detected was 6.89.
From these figures it would appear that the food supply of this
Borough has improved, but this may, to some extent, be
accounted for by the fact (hat in 1909 there was a decided
decrease in the adulteration found in samples of meats and other
groceries taken during the year.
The system which has been adopted by the Council of
allowing the Inspector to provide his own assistants still works
economically and well. During the past year no less than nine
different assistants, including three women and two boys, have
been engaged at various times to make purchases of food for
analysis.
The following Table shows the number of samples taken in
each sub-district of the Borough, together with the number per
1,000 of population, the number of adulterations detected, and the
percentage of adulterations.

In the sub-district of Tooting the number of samples taken
per 1,000 of population was considerably higher than in any of