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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

Bethnal Green 1924

Special report on an outbreak of Typhoid Fever in the Borough of Bethnal Green in 1924

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Table: ADMINISTRATIVE ACTION TAKEN WITH RESPECT TO ADULTERATED SAMPLES.

ADMINISTRATIVE ACTION TAKEN WITH RESPECT TO ADULTERATED SAMPLES.

Name of Article and Identification Number of Sample.Result of Analysis.Result of Legal Proceedings.(a) Action taken other than legal proceedings. (b) Previous Convictions (if any). (c) Other Remarks.
Milk 159Contained 4 per cent. added water.......
Do. 206Found to be 85 per cent. deficient in fat.Defendant failed to appear.(c) Summons also in respect of absence of name and address from receptacle.
Vinegar 215Contained 10 per cent. added water.Fined 10s. 6d....
Do. 217Contained 5 per cent. added water.Costs 10s. 6d. Bound over not to repeat offence....
Milk 240Found to be 11 per cent. deficient in fat.Costs 21s....
Vinegar 247Contained 7 per cent. added water.Costs 5s....
Cream Cheese 261Found to be 70 per cent. deficient in fat.Withdrawn on payment of costs, £2 2s., and undertaking by vendor not to use term Cream Cheese for similar article.
Sponge Cake 268Contained 6 grains boric acid per pound....(a) Result of analysis communicated to vendor.
Raspberry & Gooseberry Jam.Contained 7 per cent. apple pulp.Costa 21s....
270 Tinned Beans 309Contained .03 per cent. sulphate of copper....(a) Result of analysis communicated to vendor.
Milk 312Contained 4 per cent. added water.Fined 5s....
Vinegar 335Contained 3 per cent. added water....(a) Result of analysis communicated to vendor.
Cream 347Contained .12 per cent. boric acid....(c) Proceedings in respect of labelling.
Do. 349Contained .26 per cent. boric acid....(a) Result of analysis communicated to vendor.