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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
Limehouse 1899
Report on the sanitary condition of the Limehouse District (comprising the Parishes of Limehouse, Shadwell, and Wapping, and the Hamlet of Ratcliff) for the year 1899
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The total number of articles analysed during the year was
147; of which 144 were submitted by the Board's Inspectors and
3 by the Ratcliff Workhouse. This number consisted of go
milks, 16 butters, 8 coffees, 8 mustards, 7 peppers, 2 gins, 1
whisky, 2 porters, 5 breads, 3 flours, 4 oatmeals, and 1 cocoa.
Of these, 71 milks, 14 butters, 6 coffees, the mustards,
peppers, gins, whisky, porters, breads, flours, oatmeals and cocoa were genuine.
40 milks were taken on Sundays, and these were more adulterated than the others.
| Article. | Extent of Adulteration. | Result. |
|---|---|---|
| Milk | Contained at least 17 per cent. of added water | Fined 5s. and 23s. costs. |
| Milk | Contained at least 9 per cent. of added water | Fined 20s. and 23s. costs. |
| Milk | At least 35 per cent. of cream abstracted | Fined £2 10s. and 23s. costs. |
| Milk | At least 10 per cent. of cream abstracted | Vendor cautioned. |
| Milk | At least 11 per cent. of cream abstracted | Vendor cautioned. |
| Milk | Contained at least 4 per cent. of added water | Vendor cautioned. |
| Milk | Contained at least 4 per cent. of added water | Vendor cautioned. |
| Milk | Contained at least 3 per cent. of added water | Vendor cautioned. |
| Milk | Contained at least 4.3 per cent. of added water | Vendor cautioned. |
| Milk | Contained at least 4.7 per cent. of added water | Vendor cautioned. |
| Milk | Contained at least 22 per cent. of added water | Fined 30s. and costs. |
| Milk | Contained at least 47 per cent. of added water | Fined £3 and costs. |
| Milk | Contained 5 per cent. of added water | Vendor cautioned. |
| Milk | Contained 5 per cent. of added water | Vendor cautioned. |
| Contained 25 per cent. of chicory | Fined 30s. and costs. |