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The Public Analyst has furnished me with the
following report on his work during the year:—
Annual Report of the Public Analyst.
During the year 1935, 704 samples were examined under
under the Food and Drugs (Adulteration) Act. All samples
were submitted by the Inspectors. No sample under the
Act was submitted by the Public.
Eighty-nine samples were purchased informally.
Fifty-four samples were found to be adulterated, fortyfour
formal and ten informal. In addition sixty-seven other
samples were reported as of inferior quality or doubtful
purity.
The adulteration was at the rate of 8.23 per cent, as
compared with 3.19 per cent, for the whole of London and
5.3 per cent, for the whole of England and Wales in 1934.
The rate of adulteration in the Borough for the past
ten years was as follows:—
Year
No. of Samples
examined
Percentage of
adulteration
1935
704
8.2
1934
735
6.1
1933
738
7.7
1932
718
7.9
1931
749
7.1
1930
737
6.5
1929
750
8.0
1928
731
9.3
1927
728
9.2
1926
721
3.3
Average
731
7.3
The number of samples examined was at the rate of
6.9 per 1,000 of the population as compared with 9.75 per
1,000 for the whole of London and 3.52 per 1,000 for the whole
of England and Wales in 1934.
Three hundred and ninety samples of milk were examined
during the year, of which twenty samples or 5.1 per cent.
were found to be adulterated and fifty-four samples were
reported as of inferior quality or doubtful purity.