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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 1924
[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 | Withdrawn or dismissed.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. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| I | Vlilk | 4 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||
| Do. separated | — | 3 | 0 | 17 | 0 | ||||||||
| Do. condensed | 1 | — | 1 | — | — | ||||||||
| 4 | Cream | 1 | — | 1 | — | — | |||||||
| 5 | Do. preserved | 1 | 1 | — | — | 2 | 2 | 0 | |||||
| 6 | Do ice | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| 7 | Do. cheese | 1 | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||
| Do. Do. (preserved) | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | |||||||
| Cheese | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||||
| 10 | Butter | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | — | |||||||
| Buttered rolls | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| 12 | Do. scone | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| 13 | Coffee | 14 | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
| 14 | Sponge cake | 44 | — | 0 | 1 | ||||||||
| 15 | Mrat pies (various) | — | — | — | — | ||||||||
| 16 | Sausages | 3 | 3 | — | 0 | 0 | |||||||
| 17 | Meat and Fish Paste (various) | 4 | — | _ | — | — | — | ||||||
| 18 | tirawn | 1 | 1 | — | — | — | — | _ | — | ||||
| Dripping | 1 | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
| 20 | Peas | 4 | 4 | — | 0 | 13 | G | ||||||
| 21 | Beans | 1 | 1 | — | — | 2 | 2 | 0 | |||||
| 22 | Spinach | 4 | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
| 23 | Tomatoes | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
| 24 | Fruit (tinned) | 7 | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| Whiskey | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 7 | 0 | ||||||
| 26 | Bum | 8 | 5 | — | 0 | 13 | 13 | 0 | |||||
| 27 | Brandy | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| 28 | Olive oil | 11 | 11 | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||
| 29 | Lime water | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| 30 | Camphorated oil | 10 | 10 | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||
| Totals | 1,800 | 40 | 0 | 52 | 13 | 6 | |||||||
Refusal to sell.—For refusing to sell a tin of pears to the Inspector a
shopkeeper was fined £5 and £1 Is. costs.
Milk.—994 samples of ordinary milk were taken during the year.
The analysts have graded the samples submitted to them into four
groups :—Good quality, in which the fat was over 3-8 per cent.; fair
quality, in which the fat was between 3-3 and 3-8 per cent.; and poor
or inferior quality, in which the fat was between 3 per cent, (the officiai
standard) and 3-3 per cent., or in which the non-fatty solids were between
8-5 and 8-6 (if the fat was also below 3-8). Adulterated are those beiow
the official standard of 3 per cent, for fat and 8*5 for solids not fat.
(3692) F 2