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Report of Public Analyst.
FOOD AND DRUGS (ADULTERATION) ACT, 1928.
Year ended 81st December, 1934.
Of the total of 612 samples of food and drugs submitted
for analysis 550 were genuine, 38 were inferior and
24 adulterated. It is much to be regretted that the slight
improvement recorded last year has not been maintained.
The figures for inferior and adulterated samples show
increases over those for 1933 of 7 and 10 respectively. The
increase in inferior samples is due to poor quality milk,
whilst the increase in the figure for adulteration is due to
the sale in the Borough of so-called cream confectionery
containing no real cream and to very defective specimens of
iodine ointment. In the last available (1933-1934) Report
of the Ministry of Health the percentage of adulterated or
defective samples for the whole country is given as 5.5
whereas in our Borough the percentage is 3.9.
In Table I are given the total numbers of samples received
under the Food and Drugs (Adulteration) Act as recorded in
my quarterly Statutory Reports to the Ministry of Health,
with the numbers classified as genuine, inferior and
adulterated.

In Table II the percentages of genuine, inferior and
adulterated samples are compared for the last ten years. It
will be seen from this that the year under review is one of
the worst within the period.