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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 1908
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, City of]
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The County Council are seeking powers to deal with dirty milk
as it arrives in London.
Ice Cream Premises.—Inspectors Dee and Sanderson found that at
64 of the restaurants, &c., they visited ice cream was prepared ; 317
visits were paid by the Inspectors to places where this commodity is
prepared, In eight instances the places so used were not in accordance
with legal requirements, and in five the manufacture and sale of ice
cream was prohibited until the conditions were rectified; one person
gave up dealing in it. Two street sellers were cautioned for not having
their name and address on their barrows.
Sale of Food and Drugs Acts.
| Number. | Articles of Food. | Number of Samples Purchased. | Genuine. (Inferior in brackets.) | Adulterated. | Prosecutions. | Convictions. | Warranty or Disclosure. (Withdrawn and Dismissed.) | Fines. | Costs. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| £ | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. | ||||||||
| i | Milk | 860 | 703 (75) | 82 | 44 | 28 | 16 | 53 | 10 | 0 | 18 | 4 | 6 |
| 2 | do. Separated | 9 | 9 | ||||||||||
| 3 | do. Skimmed | 8 | 8 | ||||||||||
| 4 | do. Machine Skimmed condensed. | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| 5 | Cream, fresh* | 11 | 2 | 9 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| 6 | Butter | 264 | 233 (13) | 18 | 5 | 5 | - | 7 | 5 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 6 |
| 7 | do. Milk Blended | 3 | 3 | ||||||||||
| 8 | Margarine | 45 | 43 | 2 | 6 | 6 | - | 3 | 10 | 0 | 2 | 14 | 0 |
| 9 | Cheese | 5 | 4 | 1 | |||||||||
| 10 | do. Cream | 60 | 50 (1) | 9 | 1 | 1 | - | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| 11 | do. Sandwich | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| 12 | Bread and Butter | 8 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | - | 6 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 6 |
| 13 | Bread | 27 | 27 | ||||||||||
| 14 | Chocolate | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 15 | do. Milk | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | 5 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | 0 |
| 16 | do. Biscuit | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| 17 | Steak and Kidney Pie | 3 | 2 | 1 | |||||||||
| 18 | Meat Pie | 23 | 15 | 8 | |||||||||
| 19 | Veal and Ham Pie | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | - | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 6 |
| 20 | Pork Pie | 45 | 23 | 22 | |||||||||
| 21 | do. Stuffing | 1 | — | 1 | |||||||||
| 22 | Sausage, German | 6 | 1 | 5 | |||||||||
| 23 | do. Liver | 2 | — | 2 | |||||||||
| 24 | do. Salami | 4 | 4 | ||||||||||
| 25 | do. Beef and Pork and Saveloys | 100 | 70 | 30 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 7 | 0 |
| 26 | Brawn | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| 27 | Pepper | 54 | 54 | ||||||||||
| 28 | Salt, Cerebos | 4 | 4 | ||||||||||
* In addition, 13 prosecutions for boric acid in cream, adjourned from 1907, pending
result of an appeal, were dealt with, and nominal fines were inflicted in each case
amounting in all to £3 5s. with £8 2s. 6d. costs.