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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

City of London 1899

Report on the sanitary condition of the City of London for the year 1899

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Table: Up to the end of the year the following list of samples, referred to on page 170, had been collected for the Preservatives Committee, and forwarded to the Government Laboratories, viz.:—

Up to the end of the year the following list of samples, referred to on page 170, had been collected for the Preservatives Committee, and forwarded to the Government Laboratories, viz.:—

Cheese8 samples.
Condensed Milk6 „
Bacon6 „
Potted Meats6 „
Tinned Rabbit1 „
Preserved Fruits5 „
Beer4 „
Wine2 „
Lard1 „
Total39 samples.

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All these had arrived in this country from
various Foreign and Colonial ports.
In a Report recently presented to the Sanitary
Committee I referred in detail to some circular
letters issued by the Board of Agriculture,
respecting the Food and Drugs Act, 1899.