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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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In this case the Magistrate described the label in which the cheese was wrapped as a " deliberate fraud." The Council called the attention of the Wilts United Dairies to their label and the observations of the Magistrate.
206 N.2nd AprilMarlborough Street (Mr. Mead)BREAD AND BUTTER.Selling bread and margarine as bread and butterFined £2.
Arthur Thomas Yince, 16, Portland Street
2001ST.2nd AprilMarlborough Street (Mr. Mead)Bartholomew Borzone, 59, Old Compton StreetSelling bread and margarine as bread and butterFined £2 10s. and 12s. 6d. costs.
191 N.2nd AprilMarlborough Street (Mr. Mead)Joseph Dauphin, 25, Little Pulteney StreetSelling bread and margarine as bread and butterFined £2.
372 N.15th JuneMarlborough Street (Mr. Denman)PORK SAUSAGES.Selling pork sausage containing 34 grains of boric acid per poundSummons withdrawn. £2 2s. costs paid.
John Cridlan (Cridlan and Son), 3, Foubert's Place
The Defendant stated that he had ceased the manufacture of sausages, and did not propose to make them any more.
845 N.28th November, and 5th and 11th DecemberMarlborough Street (Mr. Mead)George William Hayward, 5, Market Street, Shepherd's MarketSelling pork sausage containing 22.4 grains of boric acid per poundFined £2 and £5 5s. costs. (Appeal entered at the London Quarter Sessions.)
349 S.17th JulyWestminster (Mr. Horace Smith)VEAL AND HAM PIE.Selling a yeal and ham pie which contained 41.36 grains of boracic acid per lb.Fined 10s. and 12s. 6d. costs.
Army and Navy Co-operative Society, Ltd., 105, Victoria Street, S.W.
The Defendants, through their Counsel, stated that they had given their servants instructions not to use any preservative of this character, and that the amount found in this sample was due to a mistake on the part of one of their servants.
534 N.23rd July and 31st JulyMarlborough Street (Mr. Mead)CHOCOLATE.Selling milk chocolate containing foreign starch, foreign fat, and cocoa husksFined £5 and £10 10s. costs.
Jas. D. Sullivan, 36, Rupert Street, W.
533 N.23rd July and 31st JulyMarlborough Street (Mr. Mead)E. L. Bean, 5a, Walker's Court, W.Selling broken chocolate containing foreign starch, foreign fat, and cocoa husksFined £2 and 2s. costs.