Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Stoke Newington, The Metropolitan Borough]
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Table showing the results of Analyses of Samples taken under the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts, during the year 1905 in England and Wales:—
Percentage Adulterated. | ||
---|---|---|
1904. | 1905. | |
Milk | 11.1 | 10 .5 |
Butter | 5.7 | 6. 9 |
Cheese | 0.9 | 2.3 |
Margarine | 7.1 | 4.8 |
Lard | 0.2 | 0.4 |
Bread | 0.2 | 0.2 |
Flour | 0.6 | — |
Tea | — | — |
Coffee | 6.3 | 6.6 |
Cocoa | 8.8 | 5.3 |
Sugar | 5.4 | 3.7 |
Mustard | 4.8 | 3.4 |
Confectionery and Jam | 5.5 | 3.3 |
Pepper | 1.8 | 0.9 |
Wine | 17.5 | 11.2 |
Beer | 7.0 | 2.5 |
Spirits | 12.0 | 11.5 |
Drugs | 11.3 | 9.0 |
Other Articles | 7.3 | 7.7 |
All Articles | 8.5 | 8.2 |
In accordance with the suggestion of the Local Government
Board, contained in their circular of the nth July, 1906, all the