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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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| No. of Sample. | Date of Hearing. | Court and Magistrate. | Name and Address of Defendant. | Offence. | Result. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
| 373 N. | 1908. 5th May | Marlborough Street (Mr. Denman) | DRUGS. Foreign Chemists, Ltd. (Wilcox, Jozeau and Co.), 49, Haymarket, S.W. | Selling oxymel of squills in which sugar had been substituted for honey | Fined £2 and 125. Gd. costs. |
| 941 S. | 31st December | Marlborough Street (Mr. Mead) | John Parker Ellerington (trading as Crowe and Co.), 19, Air Street, W. | Selling fluid magnesia deficient in carbonate of magnesia to the extent of 76 per cent. | Dismissed on a technical objection to form of certificate. |
| 930 N. | 1909. | Bow Street (Sir A. de Rutzen) | Cornelius Francis Serjeant, 17 and 18, Rupert Street | Selling quininewine containing not more than one-tenth of a grain of quinine per pint of wine | Summons dismissed, the Magistrate being of opinion that the inspector's assistant had been told by the defendant's assistants that they had no quinine wine, but that they had tonic wine. |
| 1st and 8th January |