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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
City of London 1901
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London, City of ]
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Fourth Quarter.
| 363 | Milk | 22 per cent. of added water | £5 and 17s.6d. expenses. |
| 368 | „ | 30 per cent. of original fat abstracted | £l and 21s.6d. expenses. |
| 370 | „ | 24 per cent. of original fat abstracted | 10s. and 17s. 6d. expenses. |
| 384 | „ | 32 per cent. of added water | Summons dismissed. Vendor stated she had given name of brother as owner in error. |
| 390 | „ | 17 per cent. of original fat abstracted | Dismissed. N0 intent to defraud. |
| 408 | „ | 10 per cent. of added water | 20s. and 21s.6d. expenses. |
| 411 | Butter | 100 per cent of margarine | £3 and 17s. 6d. expenses. |
| 419 | Almond Oil | 100 per cent. of oil other than almond | 5s. and 32s. expenses. |
| 444 | Milk | 10 per cent. of added water | £20 and 40s. 6d. expenses. (Second conviction.) |
| 452 | „ | 10 per cent. of added water | £10 and 18s. 6d. expenses. (Second conviction.) |
| 507 | Boric Acid Ointment | 20 per cent. of boric acid deficient | 40s. and 19s.6d. expenses. |
| 517 | Butter | 100 per cent. of margarine | 10s. and 2s. expenses. |
| 518 | Milk | 13 per cent. of added water | 40s. and 17s. 6d. expenses. |
| 519 | „ | 17 per cent. of added water | 40s. and 21s. 6d. expenses. |
| 538 | „ | 20 per cent. of added water | 40s. and 17s. 6d. expenses. |
| 541 | „ | 15 per cent. of original fat extracted | £3 and 17s.6d. expenses. |
| 606 | Almond Oil | 100 per cent. of oil other than almond oil. | Summons dismissed on question of fact. |
| 611 | Boric Acid Ointment | 19 per cent. of boric acid deficient | 10s. and 14s. 6d. expenses. |
| 638 | Milk | 22 per cent. of added water | £5 and 17s. 6d. expenses. |
| 663 | Butter | 100 per cent. of margarine | £3 and 21s.6d. expenses. |
| 674 | Milk | 10 per cent. of added water | £3 and 17s.6d. expenses. |
| 700 | ,, | 12 per cent. of added water | 10s. and 17s. 6d. expenses. |
| 744 | Butter | 100 per cent. of margarine | 40s. and 17s. 6d. expenses. |
| 759 | Mercury Ointment | 60 per cent. of mercury deficient | 40s. and 21s. 6d. expenses. |
| 762 | ,, | 70 per cent. of mercury deficient | 2s. 6d. and 18s. 6d. expenses. |
| 771 | Milk | 9 per cent. added water | £4 and 21s. 6d. expenses. |
| 793 | ,, | 10 per cent. of added water | £5 and 17s. 6d. expenses. |
| 796 | ,, | 20 per cent. of original fat abstracted | 40s. and 21s. 6d. expenses. |
| 803 | Butter | 100 per cent. of margarine | 20s. and 17s. 6d. expenses. |
In my Annual Report for 1900, reference was made to the Report of the
Departmental Committee appointed by the President of the Board of
Agriculture to consider as to what regulations, if any, should be made under
Section 4 of the Sale of Food and Drugs Act, 1899, for determining what
deficiency, if any, of the normal constituents" of genuine milk and cream,
or what addition of extraneous matter or proportion of water in any sample
"of milk or cream, should raise a presumption, until the contrary is proved,
" that the milk or cream is not genuine."
As a result of the recommendation of this Committee, on the 5th August
the following Rules were issued: —
SUMMARY.
| £ | s. | £ | |||||
| First and Second Quarters: Fines | 38 | 2 | 6 | expenses | 11 | 19 | 0 |
| Third Quarter „ | 32 | 3 | 6 | „ | 23 | 15 | 6 |
| Fourth Quarter „ | 80 | 7 | 6 | „ | 25 | 6 | 0 |
| £150 | 13 | 6 | £61 | 0 | 6 | ||
| Fifty-six fines were inflicted during the year; the average fine being £2 13s. 10d. | |||||||