Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, City of]
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No. of Date of Offence Result.
Sample. Hearing.
1 2 3 4
1912.
387 S. 31st J uly Selling margarine as butter Fined £3 and 12s. 6d. costs.
Fined in 1908 for similar offence.
376 S. 31st July Selling margarine as butter Fined 40s. and 12s. 6d. costs.
(See 58 S.).
375 S. — Selling margarine as butter Defendant gone away. Summons
not served.
545 N. 9th Aug. Selling milk-blended butter as Fined £5 and £1 3s. costs,
butter.
497 S. , llth Sept. Selling margarine as butter Fined 20s. and 12s. 6d. costs.
592 S. 13th Nov. Selling margarine as butter Fined 40s. and 12s. 6d. costs.
1913.
712 S. 1st Jan. Selling margarine as butter Fined 20s. and 33s. 6d. costs.
(See Milk, 214 S.).
947 N. 21st Jan. Selling margarine as butter .. Fined 40s. and £1 3s. costs.
1912. CREAM.
928 N. 20th Dec. Selling cream containing 36 grains Fined £6 and 30s. costs,
of boric acid per lb.
908 N. 7th Dec. Selling preserved cream containing Warranty proved. Summons
42 grains of boric acid per lb. dismissed.
Label on jar stated that the
cream contained not more than
35 grains per lb.
1913.
908 N. 4th Feb. Giving a false.warranty in respect Fined £1 and £2 3s. costs,
of preserved cream
1912. FRENCH BEANS.
881 N. 13th Dec. Selling French beans containing Fined 50s. and 10s. costs.
3 .6 grains of crystallised copper
sulphate per lb of beans
VINEGAR.
639 S. 28th Nov. Deficient in acetic acid to the ex- Fined 8s. and 2s. costs.
tent of 53 per cent.
CAMPHORATED OIL.
437 N. — Deficient in camphor to the extent Withdrawn on payment of
of 7 per cent. £1 ls. cost.