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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

Finsbury 1907

Report on the public health of Finsbury 1907 including annual report on factories and workshops

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Table:

Quarter of the year.No. of Samples taken.No. of Samples Adulterated.Percentage AdulteratedNo. of Prosecutions Instituted.Fines and Costs.
£s.d.
1st13086.1434156
2nd1622113.04786
3rd145138.91222146
4rh166106.082986
Total for year603528.6289470

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The method af sampling adopted is as follows:
(a) 500 ordinary samples, including milk;
(b) 100 extra samples of milk only.
As will be seen by the above table, the 500 ordinary samples
include milk, butter, cheese, coffee, mustard, popper, etc. These
samples are taken by each Inspector in his own district monthly.
Every salesman of these or similar articles is sampled at some time
during the year.
The extra milk samples have been taken at unusual hours (in the
evening, on Sundays), or in the streets. The percentage of adulteration
in these extra samples during 1907 was 21.0, as compared with
a percentage of 6.5 in the ordinary samples.

Table: For convenience, I append a summary of the samples taken under the Food and Drugs Acts and examined during the year 1907, and a table comparing these figures with those of the six previous years:—

For convenience, I append a summary of the samples taken under the Food and Drugs Acts and examined during the year 1907, and a table comparing these figures with those of the six previous years:—

Year.Total Examined.Genuine.Adulterated.Percentage of adulterated samples.Percentage of adulterated samples for whole of London.
190150I4138817.5611.4
19025564758114.5611.9
19036105248614.1010.8
19046105377311.9610.2
19056205477311.7710.2
19066025277512.4212.1
1907603551528.62Not yet available.