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Lambeth 1910

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth, Metropolitan Borough of]

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Table: Sale of Food and Drugs Acts.—Summonses, 1910— continued.

Sale of Food and Drugs Acts.—Summonses, 1910— continued.

Offence.Penalty.Costs.
£s.d.£s.d.
Brought forward532024166
On 14th December, two summonses were heard before Mr. Hopkins, at Lambeth Police Court, re selling Milk containing extraneous water to the extent of 5 percent. [sample 1,412]1000166
Re selling Butter (containing Margarine (not butter) 70 parts [sample 1,464]01000168
On 4th January, 1911, 2 summonses were heard before Mr. Hopkins, at Lambeth Police Court, re selling Butter, containing Margarine (not butter) 100 parts [sample 1483]1000166
Re selling Butter, containing Margarine (not butter) 100 parts [sample 1,484]1000166
On 1st February, 1911, one summons was heard before Mr. Hopkins, at Lambeth Police Court, re selling Milk containing extraneous water to the extent of 16 percent. [sample 1,721]--
Defendant having absconded; the Magistrate adjourned summons sine die
On 8th February, 1911, two summonses were heard before Mr. Hopkins, at the Lambeth Police Court re selling Milk deficient in Milk Fat to the extent of 23 percent. [sample 1,722]1000200
Re selling Milk containing extraneous water to the extent of 42.5 percent. [sample 1,723]--
Summons withdrawn owing to a legal technicality; the Magistrate said defendant should have been summoned for refusing to sell.-
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4. London.—Measles.—Mortality amongst Children 0-5 calculated on
the actual number of children living at ages 0-5.
Period.
Death Rate
per 1000
Children
living at
ages 0-5.
Period.
Death rate
per 1000
Children
living at
ages 0-5.
1851—60
3.89
1903
3.90
1861—70
4.18
1904
4.30
1871—80
3.65
1905
3.19
1881—90
4.74
1906
3.57
1891—1900
4.82
1907
3.29
1901
3.70
1908
2.71
1902
4.42
1909
N.B.— Of the 327 Education Authorities of England and Wales, 173 (more
than half) partially or wholly exclude children under 5 years of age
from Elementary Schools. Of these 173 Authorities, 74 exclude
because of the expense for accommodation or staff, 62 exclude from
certain Schools or intermittantly, and of these 62 Authorities, 41 permanently
exclude Children under 4 years of age and some exclude
Children until the term—quarter, half-year or year—in which they
will attain the age of 5 years ; 32 Authorities permanently exclude
all Children under 5 years of age from all Elementary Schools.
(Board of Education Report, 1908).