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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 1911
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, City of]
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Sale of Food and Drugs Acts.
| Article of Food. | Number of Samples Purchased. | Genuine. (Inferior in brackets.) | Adulterated. | Prosecutions. | Convictions. | Withdrawn or Dismissed. | Fines. | Costs. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| £ | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. | |||||||
| Milk | 911 | 734 (100) | 77 | 42 | 19 | 23 | 28 | 15 | 0 | 11 | 15 | 0 |
| do. separated | 6 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 6 |
| do. skimmed | 6 | 5 | 1 | |||||||||
| do. and soda water | 3 | 3 | ||||||||||
| Cream, fresh | 33 | 17 | 16 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 10 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 6 |
| do. potted | 12 | 1 | 11 | |||||||||
| do. ice | 14 | 14 | ||||||||||
| Butter | 190 | 168 (7) | 15 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 6 |
| Margarine | 28 | 28 | — | 7* | 7 | — | 8 | 12 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 0 |
| Cheese | 17 | 17 | ||||||||||
| do. Midget Gouda | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| do. Pommel cream | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| do. Dutch do. | 2 | 2 | ||||||||||
| do. Parmesan. | 2 | 1 (1) | ||||||||||
| do. Gruyere | 3 | 3 | ||||||||||
| do. Camembert | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| do. Gorgonzola | 7 | 7 | ||||||||||
| Lard | 18 | 18 | ||||||||||
| Bread and butter | 38 | 38 | ||||||||||
| Roll and butter | 3 | 3 | ||||||||||
| Bread | 16 | 16 | ||||||||||
| Oatmeal | 32 | 32 | ||||||||||
| Flour | 22 | 21 | 1 | |||||||||
| do. self-raising | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Tea | 19 | 19 | ||||||||||
| Coffee | 29 | 28 | 1 | |||||||||
| do. and chicory | 10 | 10 | ||||||||||
| Cocoa | 52 | 48 (1) | 3 | |||||||||
| Chocolate | 4 | 2 | 2 | |||||||||
| do. powder | 4 | 3 | 1 | |||||||||
| Pork pies | 33 | 30 | 3 | |||||||||
| Steak pies | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Meat pies | 2 | 2 | ||||||||||
| Veal and ham pies | 1 | — | 1 | |||||||||
| Veal pate | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Sausages, beef and pork and smoked | 48 | 41 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | |
| Sausages, fish | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| do. German | 9 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 2 | — | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 |
| Turkey and tongue | 6 | 6 | ||||||||||
| Tongue | 3 | 3 | ||||||||||
| Liver paste | 4 | 4 | ||||||||||
| Beef paste | 1 | - (1) | ||||||||||
| Lobster paste | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Chicken and ham | 8 | 7 | 1 | |||||||||
* Samples taken under Sections 6 and 10 of the Margarine Act, 1887.