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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Sale of Food and Drugs Acts.
Number | Article of Food. | Number of Samples Purchased. | Genuine. (Inferior in brackets.) | Adulterated. | Prosecutions. | Convictions. | Withdrawn or Dismissed. | Fines. | Costs. | ||||
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1 | Milk | 873 | 720 (80) | 73 | 34 | 17 | 17 | 38 | 7 | 0 | 9 | 14 | 0 |
2 | do. separated | 5 | 5 | ||||||||||
3 | do. skimmed | 3 | 1 | 2 | |||||||||
4 | do. and soda water | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
5 | Cream, fresh | 32 | 31 | 1 | 1 | 1 | — | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 0 |
6 | do. preserved | 45 | — | 45 | 12. | 1 | 11. | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 |
7 | do. ice | 16 | 16 | ||||||||||
8 | Butter | 289 | 257 (15) | 17 | 11 | 10 | 1 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 7 | 0 |
9 | do. milk blended | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
10 | Margarine | 11 | 11 | ||||||||||
11 | Lard | 9 | 9 | ||||||||||
12 | Bread and butter | 10 | 10 | ||||||||||
13 | Bread | 10 | 10 | ||||||||||
14 | Flour | 9 | 9 | ||||||||||
15 | Sago | 7 | 7 | ||||||||||
16 | Cornflour | 9 | 9 | ||||||||||
17 | Cokernut, desiccated | 4 | 4 | ||||||||||
18 | Tea | 17 | 17 | ||||||||||
19 | Coffee | 20 | 20 | ||||||||||
20 | Cocoa | 21 | 20 (1) | ||||||||||
21 | Chocolate powder | 1 | . | 1 | |||||||||
22 | Pork | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
23 | do. pies | 42 | 36 | 6 | |||||||||
24 | Steak pie | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
25 | do. and tomato pie | 1 | . | 1 | |||||||||
26 | Meat pies .. | 20 | 14 | 1 6 | |||||||||
27 | Ox tail soup | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
28 | Tomato soup | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
29 | Sausages, beef, pork, and smoked | 65 | 55 | 10 | |||||||||
30 | Sausages, German | 5 | 5 | ||||||||||
31 | do. liver | 3 | 2 | 1 | |||||||||
32 | do. garlic | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
33 | do. rolls | 2 | 2 | ||||||||||
34 | Pudding, black | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
35 | Corned beef | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
38 | Brawn | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
37 | Ham | 6 | 5 | 1 | |||||||||
38 | Meats (various), potted | 38 | 30 | 8 | |||||||||
39 | Galantine du G ibier | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
40 | Sardines in tomatoes | 3 | 1 | 2 | |||||||||
41 | ardine paste | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
42 | Herringsin tomatoes | 8 | 5 | 3 | |||||||||
. The hearing of ten of these cases has been adjourned sine die pending an appeal in a case in the Borough of Kensington. |