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Food Stuff. Offence. Result.
Coffee 50 do. chicory „ £3 & 12/6 costs.
Milk 48 do. of cream extracted „ £10 „ 7/- „
„ 20 do. added water 5/- „ 2/- „
Butter 90 do. Margarine Dismissed.
Milk 11 do. added water Lost through delay in
service of summons.
Coffee 50 do. Chicory Dismissed.
Milk 9 do. added water Case withdrawn.
The fines cannot be said to err on the side of
severity when one considers that the detected cases of
adulteration form but a very small proportion of all
such cases, and takes into account the large profits
which result from the sale of say 10 per cent, of water
added to milk, or 20 per cent, of cream abstracted for
sale at an enhanced value. The injury done by such
fraud to infants who are fed on milk deprived of its
nutritive properties must be very great and lasting.
It seems probable that nothing short of imprisonment
without the option of a fine will check adulteration.
Sanitary Legal Proceedings.—There were 8 cases
last year which were taken before the Magistrate,
viz.:—
Bad eggs found in a bakehouse, fined £4 and costs.
Unsound meat at a butcher's shop, fined £2 and costs.
Non-compliance with Notices, 5 cases:—
Work done before case heard, summons withdrawn,
one case;