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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
Fulham 1899
Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year ending December 30th, 1899
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* i.e. not dispensed in accordance with the prescription.
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FOOD INSPECTION
Four prosecutions were instituted by the Vestry in respect
of unsound food which was seized by the Sanitary Inspectors
and condemned by the Magistrate and penalties amounting
in all to £33 14s. were imposed.
In one case, in which a firm was prosecuted for having sold
unsound food, the summons was dismissed on the ground that it was
possible that the meat which had been sold on Saturday evening, and
was brought to the Town Hall on Monday morning in an advanced
state of decomposition, might have been sound when sold.
SALE OF FOOD AND DRUGS ACTS The following samples were taken for analysis during the year:—
| Article. | No. of samples. | No. adulterated. | Percentage of adulteration. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Milk | 112 | 19 | 17·0 |
| Butter | 151 | 26 | 17·2 |
| Coffee | 10 | 1 | 10·0 |
| Cream | 4 | 2 | 50·0 |
| Mustard | 4 | – | – |
| Pepper | 5 | – | – |
| Lard | 7 | – | – |
| Cheese | 11 | – | – |
| Tinned Salmon | 3 | – | – |
| Whisky | 7 | – | – |
| Gin | 5 | – | – |
| Rum | 2 | – | – |
| Vinegar | 1 | – | – |
| Ginger | 2 | – | – |
| Arrowroot | 2 | – | – |
| Olive Oil | 3 | 2 | 66·6 |
| Medical Prescriptions | 23 | 7* | 30·5 |
| 352 | 47 | 13·1 |
In the three preceding years the percentage of adulterated samples
was 7.6, 12.6 and 11.1.
One sample was obtained for every 371 persons, the proportion
in London in 1898 being one for every 402 persons.
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