Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea for the year 1923
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No. of Sample | Article. | Nature of Offence, Adulteration, &c. | Result of Proceedings. |
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310 | Cream of Tartar | 8-0% bicarbonate of soda | Withdrawn by order of the Health Committee on payment of 23s. costs. |
321 | Milk | 2-0% extraneous water & 6.0% deficient in fat | Withdrawn on payment of £3 3s. Od. costs. Sample taken in course of delivery. |
367 | Milk | 16-0%deficient in fat | Summonses dismissed on payment of 25s. costs in all, having regard to defendant's previous good record. Samples taken in course of dedelivery. |
369 | Milk | 17-0% deficient in fat | |
374 | Milk | 10-0% deficient in fat | Summons dismissed on payment of 17/6 costs, having regard to defendant's previous good record. Sample taken in course of delivery. |
476 | Milk | 18% extraneous water | Fined 40s. |
601 | Sponge Cake | The equivalent of 23-8 grains of crystallised boric acid per lb. | Fined 40s. and £1 Is. 0d. costs. |
618 | Milk | 2% deficient in fat | Dismissed on payment of £1 Is. Od. costs. |
634 | Milk | 11J% extraneous water and at least 32£% deficient in milk fat | Fined £10. Name to be removed from the register of milk purveyors in the borough for a period of 12 months. |
Milk and Dairies Amendment Act, 1922.
813 | Milk | Selling milk to which a colouring matter, viz., Annatto, had been added | Summons against vendor dismissed under Probation of Offenders Act, on payment of £2 2s. Od. costs; case against employee withdrawn. |
911 | Milk | Do. | Fined 25s. |
120 | Milk | Do. | Dismissed on payment of £1 Is. 0d. costs. |
383 | Milk | •Do. | Dismissed on payment of 10s. 6d. costs. |
406 | Milk | Selling milk to which colouring matter had been added | Dismissed on payment of £1 Is. 0d. costs. |
* Also contained 2% extraneous water.