London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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 1910
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, City of]
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Sale of Food and Drugs Acts.
| Number. | Article of Food. | Number of Samples Purchased. | Genuine. (Inferior in brackets.) | Adulterated. | Prosecutions. | Couvictions. | Withdrawn or Dismissed. | Fines. | Costs. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| £ | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. | ||||||||
| Milk | 947 | 724 (115) | 108 | 61 | 33 | 28 | 47 | 5 | 0 | 23 | 11 | 0 | |
| 2 | do. separated | 8 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 1 | — | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 6 |
| 3 | do. skimmed | 5 | 5 | ||||||||||
| 4 | do. and soda water | 3 | 3 | ||||||||||
| 5 | Cream— Adulterated, fresh 20 | 49 | 21 | 28 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 6 |
| potted 8 | |||||||||||||
| 6 | Cream, ice, | 9 | 9 | ||||||||||
| 7 | Butter | 218 | 201 (6) | 11 | 4 | 4 | — | 9 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| 8 | Margarine | 45 | 42 | 3 | 1 | 1 | . | . | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||
| 9 | Cheese, Gorgonzola | 9 | 7 | 2 | |||||||||
| 10 | do. Dutch | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| 11 | Lard | 9 | 9 | ||||||||||
| 12 | do. nut | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| 18 | Bread and butter | 42 | 40 | 2 | 1 | 1 | . | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 0 |
| 14 | Bread | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| 15 | Biscuits | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| 16 | Oatmeal | 9 | 9 | ||||||||||
| 17 | Arrowroot | 10 | 10 | ||||||||||
| 18 | Flour | 10 | 10 | ||||||||||
| 19 | Tea | 6 | 6 | ||||||||||
| 20 | Coffee | 36 | 35 | 1 | |||||||||
| 21 | Cocoa | 32 | 28 (3) | 1 | |||||||||
| 22 | do. mixture | 2 | 2 | ||||||||||
| 23 | Meat pie | 28 | 27 | 1 | |||||||||
| 24 | Steak pie | 1 | — | 1 | |||||||||
| 25 | Pork pie | 11 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 1 | . | 0 | 10 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| 26 | Veal and ham pie | 1 | — | 1 | |||||||||
| 27 | Meats, potted | 5 | 5 | ||||||||||
| 28 | Turkey and tongue | 5 | 3 | 2 | |||||||||
| 29 | Sausages, pork, beef, saveloys | 73 | 57 | 16 | 5* | 5 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 13 | 0 | |
| 30 | do. German | 6 | 3 | 3 | 2† | 2 | - | 1 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 |
| 31 | do. liver | 6 | 6 | ||||||||||
| 32 | do. ham | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| 33 | do. roll | 1 | _ | 1 | |||||||||
| 34 | Lunch tongue | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| 35 | Brawn | 7 | 5 | 2 | |||||||||
| 36 | Beef, corned | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| 37 | Chicken and ham | 5 | 2 | 3 | |||||||||
| 38 39 | Bacon Haddock (fresh and cured) | 9 8 | 8 6 (1) | 1 1 | |||||||||
| 40 | Fish (cod, plaice, herrings, smoked salmon) | 6 | 6 | ||||||||||
| 41 | Gherkins | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| . Four adjourned from 1909. | |||||||||||||
| † one „ 1990 | |||||||||||||