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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

Islington 1905

Fiftieth annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Metropolitan Borough of Islington

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[1905
Dairy Produce.—928 samples, or 77.3 per cent, of all the samples
analysed were dairy produce, of which 596 were milk, 204 butter, 71 margarine,
42 cheese and 15 lard.

Table: The following statement gives the particulars respecting them :—Dairy Produce.The following samples were analysed :—

The following statement gives the particulars respecting them :—

Dairy Produce.

The following samples were analysed :—

Samples.Adulterated.Percentage Adulterated.Percentage Adulterated in 1904.Percentage Adulterated in 1903.
Milk -594457.67.89.8
Milk (Separated) -2............
Butter -204157.36.67.2
Margarine7179.920.720.7
Cheese -42............
Lard15............
928677.27.99.7

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Milk.—The number of samples of milk examined was 596, of which 2
were skimmed or separated milks. Of the former, 45, or 7*6 per cent., were
found to be adulterated, as compared with 7*8 per cent, in 1904 and 9*8 per
cent, in 1903.
323 of these samples were obtained on week ays, of which 29 or 9.0 were
adulterated; 161 were purchased on Sundays, of which 10, or 6'2 per cent.,
were adulterated, and 112 were obtained at railway stations while in course of
transit, of which 6, or 5-3 percent., were adulterated. Hence it is seen that
the largest amount of adulteration occurred on the week days and not on
Sundays as might have been anticipated. Formerly, the reverse was the case,
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