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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 1920
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, City of]
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| Number. | Article of Food. | Number of Sam-pies Purchased. | Genuine. (Inferior in brackets.) | Adulterated. | Prosecutions. | Convictions. | Withdrawn or Dismissed. | Fines. | Costs. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Milk | 14 | £ | s. | £ | s. | ||||||||
| 30 | 15 | ||||||||||||
| do. separated | — | 1 | |||||||||||
| Cream | 23 | — | 12 | 12 | 1 | ||||||||
| 4 | do. preserved | ||||||||||||
| do. whipped | 1 | — | |||||||||||
| do. cheese | 1 | (1) | |||||||||||
| Butter | 123 | ||||||||||||
| Margarine | 134 | ||||||||||||
| Lard | 1 | (1) | |||||||||||
| 10 | Dripping | 40 | 40 | ||||||||||
| Flour, self-raising | |||||||||||||
| 12 | Baking powder | 3 | 3 | ||||||||||
| 13 | Mustard | ||||||||||||
| 14 | do. mixture | ||||||||||||
| Jam | 18 | ||||||||||||
| 16 | Meat pies (various) | 60 | 50 | 10 | |||||||||
| Sausage rolls | 8 | ||||||||||||
| 18 | Sausages (various) | 124 | 15 | — | 0 | 0 | 12 | 6 | |||||
| 19 | Brawn | ||||||||||||
| Meats, potted (various) | |||||||||||||
| Fish, potted (various) | 38 | 31 | |||||||||||
| Beans | — | ||||||||||||
| Peas | 22 | — | 40 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
| Spinach | — | — | 10 | 0 | |||||||||
| Lime juice | 4 | ||||||||||||
| Lemon squash | 3 | ||||||||||||
| 27 | Olive oil | 48 | |||||||||||
| 28 | Salad oil | ||||||||||||
| Aspirin tablets | |||||||||||||
| 30 | Camphorated oil | 27 | — | 0 | 10 | ||||||||
| Selling margarine in plain wrapper | — | — | — | 10 | 10 | — | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| — | — | — | — | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
| Totals | 1,628 (33) | 139 | 50 | 44 | 122 | 35 | 0 | ||||||
Summary proceedings were ordered to be taken in 50 instances, 20
cautions were issued, the attention of the vendors was called to the report
of the Analyst in 5 instances, and no action was taken with regard to
G4 samples which deviated slightly from the standard or were test purchases
not taken officially.
There were 13 non-official samples purchased during the year.