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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 1900
Report on the proceedings of the Public Health (Sanitary) Department of the Corporation of London during the year 1900
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The following prosecutions were instituted
during the year:—
A. restaurant keeper was fined 10s. and 2s.
costs for selling Milk containing 8 per cent. of
added water.
A dairyman was fined 40s. and 10s. costs for
abstracting 46 per cent. of fat from a sample of
Milk.
Two other dairymen, carrying on business
together, were summoned under the provisions
of the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts for selling
Margarine as Butter, and were each fined £10 and
4s. costs. The same persons were also summoned
under the Margarine Act for selling Margarine
in a package by retail, the same not being
durably marked with the word "Margarine."
Both were again convicted and fined 20s. and 4s.
costs each.
A provision dealer was summoned for selling
Milk adulterated with 11 per cent. of added
water. The Magistrate being of opinion that
a technical offence only had been committed,'