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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
St Pancras 1920
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, Metropolitan Borough]
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Prosecutions were undertaken in respect of 17 of the 30 samples which were reported as being adulterated. These are set out in the following table:—
| No. of Sample. | Article. | Result of Analysis. | Date of Hearing of Summons. | Result of Proceedings. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Penalty. | Coats. | ||||||||
| 1920. | s. | d. | s. | d. | |||||
| C. 8 | Milk | Added water, 13 .8 per cent | 27th Feb. | 15 | 0 | 0 | — | ||
| C. 17 | " | Deficient in milk fat, 16 per cent. | 30th April | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 0 |
| C. 22 | Malt Vinegar | Vinegar, other than malt vinegar, 100 per cent. | 9th ,, | — | 0 | 12 | 6 | ||
| C. 32 | " | " | 9th .. | — | 0 | 12 | 6 | ||
| A. 43 | Mustard | Added starch, 7 per cent. | 23rd | Dismissed. Proceedings not taken within 28 days from purchase. | |||||
| C. 112 | Milk | Deficient in milk fat, 4 per cent. .. | 14th May | — | 2 | 2 | 0 | ||
| C. 113 | " | 23.6 | 14th „ .. | — | 4 | 4 | 0 | ||
| A. 97 | " | Added water, JO per cent. | 28th „ .. | Summons j dismissed Warranty proved | |||||
| A. 129 | " | 6.9 | 18th June | — | 2 | 2 | 0 | ||
| C. 130 | " | Deficient in milk fat, 13 per cent. | 8th July .. | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| C. 140 | " | Added water, 6.1 per cent. | 8th „ .. | 7 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| A. 194 | " | Deficient in milk fat, 16.6 per cent. | 18th Aug. | Dismissed :under the Probation of Offenders Act. | |||||
| A. 222 | " | 250 | 24th Sept. | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 6 |
| A. 262 | " | Added water, 5.2 per cent. | 12th Nov. | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 6 |
| A. 291 | " | 6.8 | 10th Dec. | 0 | 10 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 1921 | |||||||||
| A. 335 | Vinegar | Deficient in acetic acid, 13 per cent. | 10th Jan. | 0 | 10 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| A. 371 | Milk | Added water, 5.5 per cent | 2nd Feb. | 5 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
Wholesale dealers in Margarine.—Certificates of registration as Wholesale Dealers in
Margarine under the provisions of the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts were issued during the
year in respect of two premises in the Borough.
ADMINISTRATION OF THE FOOD CONTROLLER'S ORDERS.
The work of inspection and purchase of samples for the enforcement of these Orders,
which had been carried out in previous years by the male Sanitary Inspectors, under the
supervision of the Medical Officer of Health as Enforcement Officer of the St. Pancras Local
Food Control Committee, was terminated at the end of June, 1920. Up to this time the male
Inspectors made 3759 visits in 1920 in this connection.
Section VI.—Sanitary Administration.
THE STAFF.
The names of the staff of the Public Health Department at the end of 1920 will
be found on pages 5 and 6.
The visiting work of the staff will be found tabulated in Tables Nos. 7-10 on pages
93-97, and on page 17.
G. T. Calthrop, Esq., M.A., M.B. Cantab, D.P.H , who was appointed as Tuberculosis
Officer on 26th November, 1919, took up his duties on January 1st, 1920.