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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
Notwithstanding this adulteration, the analyses of the railway milks show
that they were of a higher quality than the other milks sold in the borough.

Table: This is proved by the following statement:—

This is proved by the following statement:—

No. of Samples Analysed.Percentage of Fat.Percentage of Solids, not Fat.Percentage of Total Solids.
Railway Milks1123.878.6612.53
Week Day Milks3233.728.5112.23
Sunday Milksl6l3.6885512.23
Official Standard...3.008.5011.50

Table: This of course shows that by fixing so low a standard a wide door is left open for the abstraction of fat from milks as they arrive in London from the country.

This of course shows that by fixing so low a standard a wide door is left open for the abstraction of fat from milks as they arrive in London from the country.

Railway Milks.Fat.Solids, not Fat.Total Solids.
18981204.048.8412.88
18991204.238.82I3.05
19001213.938.7512.68
19011413.698.7712.46
1902903.858.8212.67
19031203.908.6612.56
19041203.978.6212.59
19051123.878.6612.53
Total and averages9443.938.7412.67
Official Standard3.008.5011.50

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Groceries.—149 samples, or 12*4 per cent, of all articles examined by the
Public Analyst, were analysed, of which 10, or 67 per cent., were adulterated,
as compared with 9*1 per cent, in the preceding year.
The particulars of the
articles examined were as follows :—