London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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 1921
[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 | Withdrawn or Dismissed.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. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| £ | £ | s. | |||||||||||
| 1 | Milk | 987 | 92s (29) | 30 | 19 | 5 | 14 | 19 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | |
| 2 | do. separated | 12 | 12 | ||||||||||
| 3 | do. machine skimmed | 2 | 2 | 4 | |||||||||
| 4 | Cream | 46 | 41 | 5 | |||||||||
| 5 | do. preserved | 40 | 21 | 19 | |||||||||
| 6 | Butter | 157 | 141 (15) | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | -_ | 3 | 3 | 0 | ||
| 7 | Margarine | 53 | 51 (2) | ||||||||||
| 8 | do. and butter | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| 9 | Dripping | 20 | 19 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | 4 | 0 | ||||
| 10 | Meat fat | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| 11 | Chocolate | 10 | 10 | ||||||||||
| 12 | Cocoa | 4 | 4 | ||||||||||
| 13 | Coffee | 16 | 16 | ||||||||||
| 14 | Sugar | 2 | 2 | ||||||||||
| 15 | Jam | 54 | 53 | 1 | |||||||||
| 16 | Meat pies (various) | 50 | 37 | 13 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 3 | 3 | 0 | ||
| 17 | Sausage rolls | 8 | 4 | 4 | |||||||||
| 18 | Sausages (various) | 100 | 88 | 12 | 3 | 3 | _ | 8 | 0 | 0 | |||
| 19 | Brawn | 12 | 12 | ||||||||||
| 20 21 22 | Meats, potted (various) | 20 | 17 | 3 | |||||||||
| Fish, potted (various) | 36 | 31 | 5 | ||||||||||
| Beans | 1 | _ | 1 | ||||||||||
| 23 | Peas | 39 | 9 | 30 | 5 | 5 | - | 15 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| 24 | Spinach | 4 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | - | 25 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| 25 | Lime juice cordial | 3 | - | 3 | |||||||||
| 26 | Lemon squash | 3 | -_ | 3 | |||||||||
| 27 | Olive oil | 66 | 60 (3) | 3 | 2 | - | 10 | 0 | o | 2 | 2 | 0 | |
| 28 | Salad oil | 7 | 7 | ||||||||||
| 29 | Lucca oil | 2 | 2 | ||||||||||
| 30 | Vinegar | 1 | (1) | ||||||||||
| 31 | Whisky | 1 | - | 1 | |||||||||
| 32 | Aspirin tablets | 9 | 9 | ||||||||||
| Camphorated oil | 24 | 19 (1) | 4 | 1 | 1 | - | 5 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| 34 | Calomel ointment | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | 2 | 10 | 0 | |||
| 36 | Mercury ointment | 5 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | 2 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Selling margarine in plain wrapper | - | - | - | 2 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | ||
| Selling preserved cream not labelled as such | - | - | - | 2 | 2 | 10 | 0 | 11 | 0 | ||||
| Selling milk without being registered | - | - | - | 2 | 2 | - | 4 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | |
| Totals | 1,800 | 1,003 (51) | 146 | 43 | 29 | 14 | 98 | 17 | 0 | 19 | 19 | 0 | |
Summary proceedings were ordered to be taken in 43 instances, 26
cautions were issued, the attention of the vendors was called to the report