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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

City of Westminster 1905

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, City of]

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20th JulyMarlborough Street (Mr. Plowden)Giovanni Parmigiani, 58, Wardour StreetSelling peas mixed with sulphate of copper to the extent of 2.37 grains per lb.Fined 5s. and 12s. 6d.costs.
27th JulyWestminster (Mr. Curtis Bennett)Joseph Bigot Gouy, 8, Lower Grosvenor PlaceSelling peas with 2.346 grains per lb. of sulphate of copperFined £1 and 12s. 6d. costs.
14th December ..Marlborough Street (Mr. Kennedy)Sidney Thomas Lock, 1A, Hay HillSelling peas with 3.04 grains of copper sulphate per lb.Fined £2 and 12s. 6d. costs.
TINNED OR BOTTLED SPINACH.
10th AugustWestminster (Mr. Curtis Bennett)James Martin (trading as Horatio Chapman), 65, KnightsbridgeSelling spinach with 4.14 grains of crystallised sulphate of copper per lb.Fined £1 and 12s. 6d. costs.
26th OctoberMarlborough Street (Mr. Kennedy)Max Collins, 34, Church Street, SohoSelling spinach with 4.22 grains of sulphate of copper per lb.Fined £2 and 12s. 6d. costs.
9th NovemberMarlborough Street (Mr. Kennedy)Civil Service Co-operative Society, Ltd., 28, HaymarketSelling tinned spinach containing 4.57 grains of copper sulphate per lb.Fined £10 and £5 costs.*
*With regard to this case, the City Solicitors state that the tin which contained the spinach had affixed to it a notice stating that "the colour of these vegetables is retained by the use of a small quantity of sulphate of copper"; that the defendants' solicitor argued that this was sufficient notice to the public, and that consequently, the sale could not be to the prejudice of the purchaser, but that the Magistrate, however, adopted their (the City Solicitors') view, that where any article of food or drugs was mixed with an ingredient injurious to health, a label was no protection.
24th NovemberMarlborough Street (Mr. Kennedy)Henrietta Mary Masson and Henry Horace Spencer, 60, HaymarketSelling spinach containing equivalent of 4.4 grains of crystallised sulphate of copper per lb.Fined £3 and 12s. 6d. costs.
1st DecemberWestminster (Mr. Curtis Bennett)Otty Gray and Co., 1, Totbill StreetSelling spinach containing 5.658 grains of sulphate of copper per lb.Fined £2 and 12s. 6d. costs.
1st DecemberWestminster (Mr. Curtis Bennett)Alfred Thake, 74, Buckingham GateSelling spinach containing 5.934 grains of sulphate of copper per lb.Fined £3 and 12s. 6d. costs.
7th DecemberWestminster (Mr. Curtis Bennett)Bergmann Bros., Ltd., 122, Victoria StreetSelling spinach with 7.590 grains of crystallised sulphate of copper per lb.Fined £3 and 12s. 6d. costs.