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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
Lambeth 1897
Report on the vital and sanitary statistics of the Parish of Lambeth during the year 1897
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14
15
1897. Food and Drugs and Margarine Acts
Date.
Address.
Offence.
Penalty.
Costs.
£
s.
d.
£
s.
d.
Jan. 7th
5, Bishop's Terrace
Selling Coffee containing added Chicory 50 percent.
0
10
0
0
12
6
Jan. 7th
131. Lambeth Walk
Selling Butter containing Margarine (not Butter) 82
per cent.
2
0
0
0
12
6
Jan. 7th
76, Railton Road
Selling Butter containing Margarine (not Butter) 85
per cent.
1
0
0
0
12
6
Jan. 7th
116, Sussex Road
Selling Coffee containing added Chicory 60 per cent.
1
0
0
0
12
6
Jan. 7th
5, Milkwood Road
Selling Butter containing Margarine (not Butter) 83
per cent.
2
0
0
0
12
6
Jan. 7th
166, Upper Kennington Lane
Selling Butter containing Margarine (not Butter) 90
per cent.
0
10
0
0
12
6
Jan. 7th
49, Auckland Street
Selling Butter containing Margarine (not Butter) 77
per cent.
1
0
0
0
12
6
Jan. 7th
5, Goding Street
Selling Butter containing Margarine (not Butter) 70
per cent.
1
0
0
0
12
6
Jan. 7th
80, Lower Kennington Lane
Selling Butter containing Margarine (not Butter, 75
per cent.
1
0
0
0
12
6
Jan. 7th
5, Wilcox Road
Selling Butter containing Margarine (not Butter) 90
per cent.
1
0
0
0
12
6
Jan. 13th
39½, New Cut
Exposing a parcel of Margarine by retail without having
attached to same a label in printed and capital
letters of not less than 1½ in. square "Margarine."
0
10
0
0
12
6
Jan. 13th
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0
12
6
Jan. 14th
56, Hartington Road
Selling Butter containing Margarine (not Butter) 50
per cent. (Defendant failed to appear)
1
0
0
0
12
6
Jan. 14th
155, South Lambeth Road
Selling Butter containing Margarine (not Butter) 80
per cent.
2
0
0
0
12
6
Jan. 14th
43, Dorset Road
Selling Butter containing Margarine (not Butter) 75
per cent.
2
0
0
0
12
6
Jan. 14th
39, Lambeth Walk
Selling Milk containing added Water 10 per cent.
0
10
0
0
12
6
Jan. 14th
307, Liverpool Road, 'Islington
Selling Milk from which Cream had been abstracted to
the extent of 25 per cent. (Summons dismissed,
and £1 1s. costs allowed to defendant, and a summons
granted against the farmer for a false warranty,
but not taken out by Resolution of Committee)
—
—
Jan. 14th
62, Brixton Road
Selling Coffee containing added Chicory 70 per cent
1
0
0
0
12
6
Jan. 14th
33, Lower Marsh
Selling Butler containing Margarine (not Butter) 50
per cent.
2
0
0
0
12
6
Carried forward
20
0
0
11
5
0
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