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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Lambeth 1896

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth, The Vestry of the Parish of]

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Table: TABLEShewing per-centages of different adulterated Samples during 1896, and in the previous ten years.

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Shewing per-centages of different adulterated Samples during 1896, and in the previous ten years.

Year.Milk.Butter.Coffee.Bread and Flour.Cocoa and Chocolate.Cheese and LarJ.Other Groceries.Sundries.Spirits.Brandy.Gin.Rum.Whisky.Ale and Porter.Wines.Aerated Waters.Drugs.
189611.0617.715.10.00.0—0.00.00.00.00.00.00.0——0.00.0
189521.0514.726.4—0.00.00.016.616.0—12.525.0——0.00012.5
189427.622.430.0—0.00.05.30.00.00.00.00.00.0———0.0
189330.435.0411.10.018.20.03.30.08.720.00.00.011.1———0.0
189231.336.418.4—66.70.02.10.00.00.00.00.0—0.0——0.0
189147.85.03.80.0——2.60.00.00.00.0—0.00.0—0.00.0
189019.312.123.30.00.0—5.00.057.1100.066.7—50.00.0———
188928.122.212. 9——0.03.90.0—————0.0—0.0—
188820.79.38.60.0—0.05.080.0Il.l—0.033.30.00.0—0.0—
188714.0112.88.40.0——5.00.0—————0.0——0.0
18866.212.012.90.0——8.80.00.0—0.00.00.00.0—0.0—
0.0 means that all Samples were reported to be genuine and unadulterated. means that no Samples were taken during the year.