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To the Board of Works for the Strand District.
Gentlemen,
During the year ending March 30th last, I have
analysed 238 samples of various foods and drugs, all of
which were submitted to me by your Inspector under
the sale of Food and Drugs Act. Tables III. to VI.
show the nature and number of the samples analysed
during each quarter, and the number found to be
adulterated, inferior, or otherwise peculiar.
It will be seen that out of 238 samples examined,
27 (or 11.3 per cent.) were adulterated, 38 were of
inferior quality or otherwise objectionable, and 3 were
abnormal, so that 68 (or 28.5 per cent.) were other than
genuine and normal. It is satisfactory to be able to
record a decrease, slight it is true, in the number of
adulterated samples compared with former years. The
following Table (I.) shews the percentage of genuine
and adulterated samples for 1892-3 and 1893-4 in the
Strand District, and for 1892-3 in the whole metropolis,
and throughout England and Wales.