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Congress of the Royal Institute of Public Health.
This Congress and Conference of Local Authorities was held at
Liverpool, and your Medical Officer of Health had the honour of
being elected as the delegate from this Council to attend that
Congress, which was of a very high order. A full Report of the
Proceedings being presented to the Public Health Committee upon
the papers and discussions provided at the Congress.
Food and Drugs Acts. Three hundred and six samples
have been taken under the provisions of the Sale of Food and
Drugs Acts, of which 28 have been certified to be adulterated,
giving a percentage of 9 per cent. adulterated samples, which
compares very favourably with the total number of adulterated
samples, viz., 11.9 per cent., throughout the whole of London
during the year 1902, this being the last complete year for which
figures are at hand ; and in that year, throughout the whole of
London the percentage adulteration of all samples taken varied
from 3.9 in St. Marylebone, 4.1 in Woolwich, 5.4 in Hampstead,
up to 20.7 in St. Pancras, 23.8 in Hackney, and 25.3 in Shoreditch.
This number of samples taken averages slightly over three
samples per 1,000 of the estimated population. Of the total
number, 81 have been samples of milk, of which only three have
been certified to be adulterated, which is a very small proportion
indeed, being only at the rate of 3.7 per cent. of milk samples
adulterated ; this is a very striking comparison indeed with the
percentage of milk samples adulterated last year, viz., 17.2, comparing
also with 15.6, the percentage of milk samples adulterated
throughout the County of London in 1902, during which year the
percentage varied from 4.5 in Hampstead, 4.8 in Woolwich, 5.0 in
Hammersmith, up to 29.9 in Shoreditch, 30.4 in Stepney, 32.1 in