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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

Islington 1893

Thirty-eighth annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Parish of St. Mary, Islington

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Table: Table LXXIV. Showing the Stripping of Rooms after Infectious Disease. Half-Year ending 30th June, 1893.

Table LXXIV. Showing the Stripping of Rooms after Infectious Disease. Half-Year ending 30th June, 1893.

District.North 1.North 2.South 1.South 2East 1East 2.West 1.West 2.Totals.
1st Quarter7414128275380
2nd do.114131415251410106
188272623521913186

Table: Half-Year ending 30th December, 1893.

Half-Year ending 30th December, 1893.

Districts.1234567891011121314Total.
3rd Quarter682533641122171324115
4th do.510510113215167272918149
11187154162792794892242264

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N.B.—This Table has been divided into two half-yearly returns because, it will be
recollected, a re-arrangement of the Sanitary Districts was made in the middle of
the year.
ADMINISTRATION OF "THE SALE OF FOOD AND DRUGg
ACTS" FOR THE YEAR 1893.
During the year 377 samples of foods and drugs were submitted
to the Public Analyst, Dr. Frank L. Teed. Of these samples 213 were
milk, of which 40 were found to be adulterated. The adulteration of
milk is the meanest of all petty swindles, for it is the robbery, as a
rule, of the poorest and of the youngest members of the population of
their sustenauce. It is much to be regretted that the fines inflicted
have not been commensurate with the meanness of the swindle. As a
rule Magistrates inflict heavier penalties for the adulteration of spirits
than they do for the adulteration of milk. For what reason, it is
impossible to say, for very frequently in the former case no real harm
is done, while in the latter a staple food is deprived of its nutrient