London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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
Greenwich 1904
The annual report made to the Council of the Metropolitan Borough of Greenwich for the year 1904
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A feature which is becoming noticeable in this district is, that
not only are the public-houses and restaurants exhibiting a notice
which, whilst to the general public it appears to praise the quality
of the article sold, is well-known and understood by the official
purchaser to be a notice disclosing adulteration, under the Acts,
but milk sellers, buttermen and grocers are also adopting this
form of notice, thereby being enabled to palm off on the general
public adulterated articles without fear of a prosecution.