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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 1914
[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 | Withdrawn or Dismissed.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 | 894 | 739 (92) | 63 | 35 | 20 | 15 | 78 | 14 | 0 | 11 | 14 | 6 |
| 2 | do. skimmed | 6 | 5 | ||||||||||
| 3 | do. separated | 9 | 8 | 1 | |||||||||
| 4 | do. condensed | 8 | 8 | ||||||||||
| 5 | Cream, fresh | 76 | 51 | 25 | 12 | 17* | 2* | 23 | 15 | 0 | 14 | 2 | 6 |
| 6 | do. preserved | 79 | 11 | 68 | 18 | 20* | 14* | 7 | 3 | 0 | 21 | 8 | 6 |
| 7 | do. ice | 10 | 10 | ||||||||||
| 8 | Butter | 255 | 237 (13) | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 |
| 9 | Margarine | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| 10 | Bread and butter | 34 | 33 | 1 | 1 | 1 | –_ | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 6 |
| 11 | do. margarine | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| 12 | Flour | 37 | 37 | ||||||||||
| 13 | do. self.raising | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| 14 | Bread | 2 | 2 | ||||||||||
| 15 | Tapioca | 7 | 7 | ||||||||||
| 16 | Coffee | 33 | 32 | 1 | |||||||||
| 17 | Coffee and chicory | 4 | 4 | ||||||||||
| 18 | Cocoa | 59 | 57 (1) | 1 | 1 | 1 | – | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 6 |
| 19 | Cocoa essence | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| 20 | Chocolate powder | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| 21 | Sugar | 17 | 17 | ||||||||||
| 22 | Cake | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| 23 | Meats, potted (various) | 35 | 31 | 4 | |||||||||
| 24 | Meat pies (various) | 47 | 40 | 7 | |||||||||
| 25 | Brawn | 6 | 4 | 2 | |||||||||
| 26 | Beef, corned | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| 27 | Sausages, cork and beef | 63 | 58 | 5 | |||||||||
| 28 | Sausage rolls | 3 | 3 | ||||||||||
| 29 | do. German | 11 | 8 | 3 | |||||||||
| 30 | do. liver | 4 | 4 | ||||||||||
| 31 | Fish, potted (various) | 12 | 9 | 3 | |||||||||
| 32 | Asparagus (tinned) | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| 33 | Beans (tinned) | 1 | – | 1 | |||||||||
| 34 | Peas (tinned) | 21 | 11 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 6 |
| 35 | Piccalilli | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| 36 | Vinegar | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| 37 | Peaches (tinned) | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| 38 | Apricots (tinned) | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| 39 | Cyder | 8 | 3 | ||||||||||
| 40 | Ginger beer | 12 | 12 | ||||||||||
| 41 | Lemonade | 7 | 6 | 1 | |||||||||
| 42 | do. powder | 2 | 2 | ||||||||||
# The 23 cnses adjourned in 1912 and 1913 in consequence of the proposed appeal to
the High Court from the decision of the Kensington justices are now settled, the proposal
to appeal haying been abandoned. The Court ordered the Defendants to pay the costs in
each case.