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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
St Luke 1899
Report on the sanitary condition, vital statistics, &c., of the Parish of St. Luke, Middlesex for the year 1899
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The total number of samples analysed was 258, comprising:—
Milk, 93 samples; butter, 55; cheese, 7; margarine, 6; lard, 6;
groceries, 61; spirits, 14; and disinfectants, 16.
Of these there were found to be adulterated:—Milk, 17 samples; butter, 14; groceries, 4; disinfectants, 2; and margarine, 1; this last not being labelled.
| Article Sold as | Extent of Adulteration. | Fines. | Costs. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| £ | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. | ||
| Butter | 94 % of margarine | 1 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 6 | |
| 61 % of foreign fat | 10 | c | 12 | 6 | |||
| Entirely margarine | 1 | i | 0 | 12 | 6 | ||
| Coffee | 50 % chicory | 12 | 6 | ||||
| Milk | 14 % added water | 10 | 0 | 12 | 6 | ||
| 12 % „ | 1 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 6 | ||
| 18 % of cream abstracted | 10 | 0 | 12 | 6 | |||
| 17 % of added water | 2 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 6 | ||
| 11 % „ „ | 1 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 6 | ||
| 11 % „ „ | 2 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 6 | ||
| 44% „ „ | 10 | 0 | 12 | 6 | |||
| 13% „ „ | 1 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 6 | ||
| 8 %„ „ | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||
| Pepper | 40 % of ground maize | 1 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 6 | |
| £15 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 6 | |||
| Article Sold as | Extent of Adulteration. | Fines. | Costs. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| £ | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. | ||
| Margarine | Not properly labelled | 5 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 6 | |
| 8 | 0 | 12 | 6 | ||||
| 1 | 0 | 12 | 6 | ||||
| ... | 12 | 6 | |||||
| 3 | 0 | 12 | 6 | ||||
| 15 | 0 | 12 | 6 | ||||
| Refusing to serve Inspector | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||
| 7 | 0 | £3 | 17 | 0 | |||