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Food Condemned as Unsound, 1929.
Sheep. Weight.
23 Livers affected with cirrhosis 41½ lbs.
3 Livers affected with cysts 4 lbs.
Liver and paunch. Inflammation and adhesion 8 lbs.
1 Liver affected with flukes l¼lbs.
Lungs and heart, affected with abscess 3 lbs.
1 Lung congested and parasitic 1J lbs.
Bullocks.
2 pairs of lungs affected with T.B. 27 lbs.
4 Livers aSected with cirrhosis 39 lbs.
1 Liver affected with pysemic abscess 13 lbs.
Fish.
11 stone Gibber Haddocks, unsound 154 lbs.
2 qrs. 14 lbs. Dutch Chats, unsound
70 lbs.
363¾ lbs.
FOOD ADULTERATION.
Sale of Food and Drugs Acts.—Mr. llobinson, Chief Officer
of the Public Control Department of the Middlesex County
Council, has very kindly sent me the following list of samples
purchased in Hornsey during the year ended 31st December,
1929: —
Article. Taken. Adulterated.
Milk 254 1
Milk, sterilised 12 —
Butter 17 —
Cream 2 —
Eggs 1 —
Meat 8 1
Rum 6 1
Sausages 2 —
Whisky 14 3
316 6
Number of Prosecutions 1
Number of Convictions 1