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ON THE SANITARY CONDITION OF
It would probably be better were only sound fruit
sold in the market, but from the limited space, the large
quantities dealt in, and the short time that it is in the
seller's possession, this does not appear to be possible.
Questions were asked in the House of Commons of
the President of the Local Government Board in
reference to sale of unsound fruit, and the President
(Mr. Fowler) replied that the authorities of the Strand
District and of the City of London were exercising a
careful supervision in this matter.
In reference to the large quantity of tinned lobsters
seized, no action was taken for the reason that the
goods were sold by auction under a debt warrant.
The Acts relating to the sale of food and drugs have
been systematically enforced throughout the District
as in former years, under the supervision of your
Health Committee, and from the report of your Board's
Analyst it will be seen that a varied number of articles
have been examined by him, and at page 92 will be
found a note of the prosecutions for adulteration with
the results.
Complaints have been numerous throughout the
country for some years about the lowness of the
standard adopted in the Somerset House Laboratory,
to which samples may be sent by magistrates who
desire their opinion in cases brought before them.
The chemists there have issued a report giving the
results of a series of experiments made upon 273 single
cows, and on the mixed milk of 55 dairies, and they
have discovered that there has been a sensible improvement
in the quality of milk since their previous
investigation ten years ago as regards the proportion