Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
The annual report made to the Council of the Metropolitan Borough of Greenwich for the year 1909
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The following Statement showing the number of samples
of all kinds of Food and Drugs, and the number of samples of
Milk and Butter examined in 1908, by the Public Analyst of
each Local Authority under the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts in
London, is interesting :—
Borough. | Total. | Milk. | Buttkr. | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Examined. | Adulterated. | Examined. | Adulterated. | Examined. | Adulterated. | |
Battersea | 1,000 | 116 | 692 | 75 | 179 | 23 |
Bermondsey | 1,281 | 106 | 650 | 72 | 354 | 31 |
Bethnal Green | 643 | 55 | 416 | 36 | 131 | 12 |
Camberwell | 760 | 84 | 370 | 14 | 201 | 29 |
Chelsea | 405 | 23 | 199 | 15 | 99 | 1 |
Deptford | 356 | 21 | 159 | 11 | 115 | 7 |
Finsbury | 601 | 54 | 362 | 29 | 91 | 8 |
Fulham | 997 | 162 | 362 | 41 | 421 | 86 |
Greenwich | 400 | 19 | 181 | 15 | 129 | 2 |
Hackney | 900 | 129 | 521 | 92 | 237 | 18 |
Hammersmith | 602 | 102 | 194 | 19 | 247 | 77 |
Hampstead | 508 | 18 | 331 | 11 | 63 | 2 |
Holborn | 500 | 35 | 220 | 14 | 131 | 8 |
Islington | 1,200 | 142 | 604 | 52 | 199 | 19 |
Kensington | 701 | 60 | 264 | 23 | 160 | 13 |
Lambeth | 1,800 | 153 | 838 | 78 | 613 | 37 |
Lewisham | 532 | 48 | 272 | 25 | 161 | 12 |
London, City | 1,183 | 78 | 484 | 31 | 380 | 4 |
Paddington | 604 | 47 | 344 | 6 | 175 | 41 |
Poplar | 394 | 34 | 159 | 17 | 137 | 16 |
St. Marylebone | 705 | 40 | 236 | 15 | 113 | 9 |
St. Pancras | 780 | 125 | 406 | 92 | 191 | 16 |
Shoreditch | 580 | 92 | 352 | 63 | 180 | 22 |
Southwark | 1,683 | 121 | 1,137 | 87 | 225 | 18 |
Stepney | 1,210 | 190 | 779 | 128 | 305 | 51 |
Stoke Newington | 156 | 12 | 87 | 11 | 24 | 1 |
Wandsworth | 1,004 | 88 | 516 | 37 | 342 | 26 |
Westminster, City | 1,633 | 220 | 800 | 83 | 247 | 18 |
Woolwich | 515 | 11 | 353 | 6 | 86 | 4 |
Total | 23,633 | 2,385 | 12,288 | 1,198 | 5,936 | 611 |