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A medium size tin of this particular cream, containing about
5½ ounces, was purchased at this period for 7½d. Prior to adopting
this method of sale, this vendor had sold cream obtained direct
from Cornwall, and had established a fair trade in this article.
In other creams purchased during the year 1926 the fat content
varied from 50.4 to 64.8 per cent.
Public Health Department,
35, Brunswick Square, S.E.5.
May 1st, 1927.
To Dr. H. W. Barnes, Medical Officer of Health, Camberwell.
Sir, —I beg to report herewith on the work carried out under the Sale
of Food and Drugs Acts, the Margarine Acts, the Milk and Cream Regulations,
the Condensed and Dried Milk Regulations, the Milk and Dairies (Consolidation)
Act, the Milk and Dairies (Amendment Act) and the Sale of Food Order, for the
year ending December 31st, 1926.
The tables "A" (Samples Analysed) and "D" (Samples Adulterated) are
set out in the form suggested by the Minister of Health in the Memo. No. 36,
dated January, 1927, on procedure under the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts, etc.
I am, Sir, your obedient Servant,
GEORGE T. DEWEY,
Inspector under the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts.
Below is a summary of formal and informal articles submitted
to the Public Analyst under the Sale of Food and Drugs
Acts and the Public Health Regulations.
The formal samples total 1,057, of which 35 were reported
against, giving a percentage of adulteration of 3.31.
Milk. —621 formal samples of milk, and one separated milk,
making a total of 622, were submitted for analysis. Of the former
14 were reported against, the adulteration being 2.25 per cent.
Table C set out below shows the percentage of adulteration
of milk extending over the past five years.
Refusal to Serve. —Proceedings were instituted against a
dairyman in this Borough for refusing to serve. The facts shortly
are as follows : —
A sample of milk had been purchased in a public thoroughfare
by an assistant and dealt with as required by the Act.
A request was made by the Inspector for a sample of milk
from another can, sufficient money for the purchase being tendered.
The request was twice repeated and ignored by the dairyman
until after he had mixed the contents of the two hand cans.