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Nothing, except the stipend paid by the Vestry, has been
received by me in connection with these analyses.
Details of the analyses are shown in the table annexed.
No. 53 in the annexed Table was a sample of Milk in which,
a prosecution having been ordered by the Vestry, defendant was
convicted and fined ten shillings. Owing, however, to the terms
of a certificate issued by the Government Laboratory after a
control analysis, the Vestry was left to pay its own costs. In
this prosecution the questions raised are of wide and fundamental
importance to the administration of the Adulteration Acts. A
full narrative of the case, together with my correspondence with
the Government Laboratory, some Introductory Notes upon the
Law upon standards of comparison and upon the limits of
the variations which are excused, also certain resolutions arrived
at by the Public Health Committee, and approved and adopted
by the Vestry, are appended hereto in a Special Report (vide
appendix 2, page 43).
1 have the honour to remain,
Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
JAMBS EDMUNDS.
28, Dover Street, Piccadilly.