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Herrings 14 lbs.
Mackerel 2 cwt.
Skate 3 ewts.
Fish (various) 144 tins.
Potted Meat 2,727 1-oz. tins; 389 2-oz. tins.
Machine Skimmed Milk 37 tins.
Articles of Food Seized.
Pears, 14½ sieves 196 lbs.) Fined £25 and £1 costs.
Pears, 14 lbs. Fined £2 and 9s. 6d. costs.
Strawberries, 1 ton, 2 cwt., 78 lbs. Cautioned.
Bloaters, 30
Haddocks, 18
Crabs, 35
Fined £5 and £2 2s. costs.
(The crabs were examined bacteriologically and found to contain large numbers
of organisms derived from sewage.)
Beef, 9 lbs. in an unsound condition Fined £5 and £3 3s. costs.
Pig's Head, Tuberculous Fined £20 and £5 costs.
Pig's Head, Tuberculous No fine, £3 3s. costs.
Pig's Carcase, Tuberculous Case dismissed. When Magistrate was
about to impose penalty, defendant's
counsel entered an objection that
defendant had not been offered the
opportunity of being tried by a jury.
Walnuts.—A quantity of French walnuts submitted for inspection
were examined by one of the Public Analysts for the City, Mr. C. H.
Cribb. The walnuts in bulk gave off a decided smell of sulphurous acid,
and the interior of several nuts gave a perceptibly acid taste. Mr.
Cribb found that 011 the shells there was 0.036 per cent, of sulphurous
acid (H2 S03), inside in the kernels there was 0.056 per cent. A
person eating 12 kernels would be taking 1.106 grains of the acid, the
maximum dose of which is 3½ grains, therefore it might be quite
possible for anyone to get acid enough to produce medicinal effects. On
exposure some of the sulphurous acid would disappear, while some
would be converted into sulphuric acid. It is probable that after the
peeling of the nuts they had been soaked in water and afterwards