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analysis, deficiency in fat to the extent of 80 per cent. ; (b) the
samples of milk had been collected direct from the cow, 5 of
thern actually in the presence of a Sanitary Inspector, and
shewed, on analysis, deficiency in fat to the extent of 6, 15, 16,
16, 25 and 60 per cents, respectively.
The total fines amounted to £80 15s. with £37 16s. costs.
(b) Butter.
447 samples of butter were taken, and of these 25 (i.e., 5.6 per
cent.) were declared by the Analyst to be adulterated—the
adulterations consisting of (1) added margarine (21), varying
from a minimum 20 per cent, to a maximum 100 per cent.,
viz. 20, 20, 20, 50, 55, 70, 90, 90, 93, 95, 95, 95, 96, 96, 96,
96, 98, 98, 98, 98, 100 respectively; (2) excess of water (1) viz.,
9'7 per cent, beyond the natural 16 per cent, allowed;
(8) margarine exposed for sale without properly labelling the
same (3).
In 72 samples of butter adulteration, 23 summonses were taken
out, and in 19 cases convictions were obtained with penalties
varying from a minimum 5s. (with 12s. 6d. costs) to a maximum
£5 (with 19s, 6d. costs).
In the remaining four cases, the results of the summonses
were as follows :—
(a) Summons dismissed (1)* Somerset House, on appeal,
certifying the butter as genuine.
(b) Summonses withdrawn (2)—in one instance the defendant
having died between the issue and the hearing of the summons,
and in the other the butter having been proved to be sold as
" milk-blended butter."
(c) Summons not served—the defendant having left the
neighbourhood between the time of the Inspector taking the
sample and the summons being applied for.
* With £2 2s. costs against the Council.