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 Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]
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Food and Food Premises. 73
The following Table gives the number of formal and informal
samples taken in each sub-district of the Borough, and
shows the number taken per 1,000 of population, the number
adulterated and the percentage of adulteration :—
TABLE XXXIX.
Informal Samples. | Formal Samples. | Total. | ||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Number taken. | Adulterated. | Percentage adulterated. | Number taken. | Adulterated. | Percentage adulterated. | Number taken. | Number per 1,000 of population. | Adulterated. | ----- Percentage adulterated. | |
Clapham | 150 | 5 | 3.3 | 166 | 6 | 3-6 | 316 | 4.9 | 11 | 3.4 |
Putney | 80 | 4 | 5.0 | 86 | 2 • | 2-3 | 166 | 5.8 | 6 | 3.6 |
Balham | 122 | 4 | 3.2 | 123 | 3 | 2-4 | 245 | 4.4 | 7 | 2.8 |
Streatham | 138 | 6 | 4.3 | 149 | 5 | 3-3 | 287 | 4.7 | 11 | 3.8 |
Tooting | 120 | 5 | 4.1 | 130 | 4 | 3 0 | 250 | 6.1 | 9 | 3.6 |
Wandsworth | 292 | 9 | 3.0 | 290 | 5 | 1-7 | 582 | 5.6 | 14 | 2.4 |
Whole Borough | 902 | 33 | 3.6 | 944 | 25 | 2.6 | 1846 | 5.4 | 58 | 3.1 |
Milk.
The following samples were submitted for analysis :—
922 of whole new milk.
12 of condensed milk.
Of these, 22 were reported against as being adulterated
or not up to Legal Standard. Nine contained extraneous
water and 13 were deficient in milk fat.
Proceedings were taken in two cases, and in 20 cases the
Public Health Committee, after considering the amount of
adulteration and the circumstances of the sale, decided not
to prosecute the vendors, but to take further samples.