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THE "SALE OF FOOD AND DRUGS ACTS" FOR THE
YEAR 1887.
During the twelve months ending December, 1887, I examined
112 samples of food, all of which were submitted by your Inspectors,
no samples having been submitted to me by the Public.
This makes in all 1,688 samples of food examined for Islington
since my appointment.

Of the 112 samples submitted to me for examination I found
none of them adulterated or containing any injurious admixtures.
1 have again, in an Appendix attached hereto, published, in
extenso, for the information of the Vestry, my Reports as Analyst,
together with their accompanying Schedules, and for further details
I refer the reader to these reports.
As I shall not again have to report as Public Analyst, I think it
right to mention here that, owing to the passing of the Margarine Act,
1887, which came into operation on the 1st January, 1888, the
Sanitary Committee expressed their desire that a much larger number
of samples of Food, &c., should be analysed in future than had
formerly been done. Under these circumstances I felt that I could
not, with my responsibilities and duties as Medical Officer of Health to
this vast Parish with such an enormously growing population, accept
any further work in this direction, even with additional remuneration