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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 1912
[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 | Withdrawn or Dismissed.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. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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. | |||||||||||||