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It will be noticed thai with regard to the percentage of adulteration
estimated on the whole number of milk samples in each
borough, Finsbury is seventeenth on the list. The boroughs
which precede it and their corresponding adulteration percentages
are : Shoreditch (22.8), Poplar (13.2), Stepney (12.2), Paddington
(11.5), St. Pancras (11.3), Bermondsey (10.6), Bethnal Green
(10.6), Lambeth (10.0), Wandsworth (9.5), Hackney (9.1), Westminster
(8.7), Lewisham (8.5), Southwark (8.5), Hammersmith
(8.0), Woolwich (7.6), and Islington (7.5). The percentage in
Finsbury was 7.2.
Milk Samples and Analyses.—The total number of milk
samples taken in 1914 was 344, of which 29 or 8.4 per cent. were
found to be adulterated on the standard adopted by the Board of
Agriculture—that is not less than 8.5 per cent. of non-fatty solids,
and not less than 3 per cent. of fat. No preservatives were found
in any of the samples.