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Salary is £400 per annum (payable quarterly) in connection
with the analysis of the first 1,000 samples, whilst a fee of 10s.
per sample is paid for every extra sample analysed over and
above that number yearly. This is a satisfactory advance (one
sample per 259 inhabitants), but a still larger number of samples
in future must be taken in Lambeth, having regard to the size
and population of the Borough. The Annual Report of the Local
Government Board 1903-4 gives, as the average for London, one
sample analysed for every 233 persons, i.e., 4.3 per 1000
population.
No samples were received by the Public Analyst during 1904
from private purchasers in Lambeth Borough, though two
samples of milk suspected to contain formalin were submitted
on behalf of the Borough Council. Both contained traces of
formalin.
The various articles analysed during 1904 were as follows :—
(a) Milk.
516 samples were taken, and of these 52 {i.e., 10.1 per cent.)
were declared by the Analyst to be adulterated. 8 of the samples
were purchased as " separated " milks, but none of these were
declared to be adulterated. The 52 adulterations found were as
follows :—
(1) Added water (19), varying from a minimum 3 to a
maximum 36 per cent.
(2) Deficient in cream (31), varying from a minimum 5 to a
maximum 30 per cent.
(3) Both added water and deficient in cream (2), 5 per cent,
added water and 10 per cent, deficient in cream, and 4 per
cent, added water and 17 per cent, deficient in cream,
respectively.
In 44 cases summonses were taken out, and in 27 cases
convictions were obtained, with penalties varying from a minimum