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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 1909
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, City of]
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| 914 N. | 31st December | Marlborough Street (Mr. Mead) | Max Taffel, 84, Berwick Street | Selling margatine ad butter | On the summons for selling margarine as butter, the Magistrate fined the defendant & 5 and 12s. 6d. costs; and on his suggestion the other two summonses were withdrawn. |
| 914 N. | 31st December | Marlborough Street (Mr. Mead) | Max Taffel, 84, Berwick Street | Selling margarine the fat of which contained over 10 per cent. of butter fat | |
| 910 N. | 31st December | Marlborough Street (Mr. Mead) | MaxTaffel, 84, Berwick Street | Exposing for sale margarine without a label marked "margarine" | |
| 386 N. | 25th June | Marlborough Street (Mr. Mead) | John Daurel, 40, Frith Street, W. | 100 per cent. of oil other than olive oil | Fined £5 and 23s. costs. |
| 811 N. | 3rd December | Marlborough Street (Mr. Mead) | John Brooker, 24, Peter Street | 3.45 grains of copper sulphate per pound | Fined 30s. and 23s. costs. |
| 679 8. | I7th December | Westminster (Mr. Horace Smith) | The International Tea Company's Stores, Ltd., 3, Mitre Square, E.C. | At 96, Buckingham Palace Road, spinach which contained 10.21 grains copper sulphate per pound | Fined £5 and £2 14s. 6d. costs. |
| 845 N. | June | County of Loudon Sessions | Appeal of G-. W. Hayward from conviction by Mr. Mead on 11th December, 1908 | Appeal dismissed. | |
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| 845 N. 1908 | 26 th January | Divisional Court, High Courts of Justice | Motion for leave to enter an Appeal | Motion dismissed with costs, the six months in which the case should have been entered having expired. | |
| Five prosecutions on account of the presence of boric acid were commenced, but held over until the decision in the above Appeal. | |||||
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| 27 N. | 22nd February | Bow Street | Ellen Maud Bartram, The Sun, 66, Long Acre | 29*5 degrees under proof instead of 25 degrees under | Defendant dead. Summons withdrawn. |
| Rum | (Mr. Mar sham) | ||||
| 101 N. | 22 March | Bow Street | Denby Hare, 18, Bear Street | 55 per cent, of spirit other than genuine brandy | Fined 40s. and 12s. 6d. costs. |
| Brandy | (Mr. Marsham) | ||||