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In the remaining 26 cases, the results of the summonses
were as follows :—
(a) Summonses dismissed (15), on account of the following
legal technicalities: warranties proved, 8*; third sample
bottle burst, 1 ; contrary proved, 3 ; defective cooler, 2 ; and
summonses wrongly worded (together with difference in
Somerset House sample), 1.
(b) Summonses withdrawn (10), on account of the following
legal technicalities : Contrary proved, 7; doubt about
warranty, 1 ; late service of summons, 1; and defective
cooler, 1.
(c) Summonses adjourned sine die (1), on account of the
following legal technality, viz. : Defendant having left his
address before the hearing of the summons.
In 11 cases no summonses were taken out for the following
reasons : (1) amounts of adulteration too small (10);
(a) extraneous water, 2, 2, 3, 5 and 6 per cents, respectively;
(b) fat deficiency, 1, 3, 4, 5 and 8 per cents, respectively;
(2) milk consigned to Liverpool Street Station, outside the
Borough of Lambeth.
The total fines amounted to ^,49 4s. with ^46 8s. 4d.
costs.
(b) Butter.
614 samples of butterf were taken, and of these 38 (i.e.,
6.2 per cent.) were declared by the Analyst to be adulterated
—the adulterations consisting of (1) added margarine (26),
varying from a minimum 10 per cent, to a maximum 100 per
cent., viz. : 10, 45, 46, 55, 60, 76, 80, 86, 86, 88, 90, 90, 93,
93, 93, 94, 94, 95, 96, 96, 97, 99, 100, 100, 100, 100,
respectively; (2) margarine exposed for sale without properly
labelling the same (11); (3) added preservative to extent of
28 grs. of boric crys. acid per lb. (1).
"With £5 5s. costs against the Council in one instance,
tlncluding 12 test samples of Irish Butter (3 adulterated,
but no summonses taken out).