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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
Poplar 1907
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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| Sample Procured (date). | Adulteration, &c. | Summons heard. (date) | Costs. | Penalty. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1907. | 1907. | £ | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. | |
| Brought forward | ••• | 12 | 11 | 0 | 18 | 5 | 0 | |
| 13 Feb. | Margarine sold without proper label | 18 Mar. | - | - | ||||
| Defendant did not appear in Court, warrant issued. (Same sample as above.) | ||||||||
| 15 Mar. | Butter adulterated with 52.6 per cent. foreign fat and containing 0.2 per cent. boric acid | 3 May | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 27 Mar. | Butter adulterated with at least 7.4 per cent. excessive water | 26 April | 1 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 May | Butter adulterated with 81.5 per cent. foreign fat. Summoned for selling Margarine without proper label | 4 June | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 May | Same defendant as above summoned for exposing for sale by retail a parcel of Margarine which did not have attached to it and in such manner as to be clearly visible to the purchaser a label marked in printed capital letters not less than 1½ inches square, "Margarine" | 4 June | 1 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 June | Margarine not delivered in proper wrapper on which was printed in capital block letters not less than half an inch long and distinctly legible, "Margarine " | 9 July | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 |
| 28 June | Butter adulterated with 60.3 per cent. foreign fat | 20 July | - | 3 | 0 | 0 | ||
| (including costs) | ||||||||
| 5 July | Margarine purchased as butter and found adulterated with 83.3 per cent. foreign fat not delivered in a properly marked paper wrapper | 12 Aug. | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 4 Jan, | Various. Demerara Sugar being beet sugar superficially coloured | |||||||
| Carried forward • | 17 | 9 | 0 | 36 | 0 | 0 | ||