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Hutching's Wharf, West Ferry Road.
No foodstuff landed.
Timothy's Wharf, West Ferry Road.
No foodstuff landed.
Maconochie's Wharf and Food Manufacturing and Preserving
Factory.
All unsound food destroyed by firm in furnaces on premises.
No unsound food landed or stored at the time of my
visits.
Sufferance Wharf, West Ferry Road. Food preserving and
manufacturing premises, bonded and for export only.
No unsound food landed or stored at! the time of my visits.
Food and Drugs Acts.
54 samples of food and drugs were purchased and submitted
to the Public Analyst for analysis. Of that number 7 contained
boric acid preservatives ranging from .1 to .4 per cent., for which
no action was taken. 2 were certified to be so adulterated that
legal proceedings were instituted.
The nature of samples and extent of adulteration, with result
of prosecution, are indicated below:—
Milk deficient in fat, 6.7 per cent.
Vendor fined 20s. and 2s. costs.
Butter containing 53.3 per cent. of foreign fat.
Vendor fined £2 and 23s. costs.
I am, Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
CEPHAS FORD,
Sanitary Inspector and Inspector under
the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts, and
Inspector of Canal Boats, Poplar South
Division.