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 Analysis of Samples taken under the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts, during the year 1907 in England and Wales:—
Percentage Adulterated. | ||
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1907. | 1906. | |
Milk | 10.5 | 12.5 |
Butter | 6.6 | 7.4 |
Cheese | 0.7 | 1.4 |
Margarine | 4.2 | 6.3 |
Lard | 0.1 | 0.5 |
Bread | 0.8 | 0.3 |
Flour | 1.3 | 0.7 |
Tea | 0.3 | 0.0 |
Coffee | 5.0 | 4.9 |
Cocoa | 5.0 | 7.6 |
Sugar | 4.0 | 3.0 |
Mustard | 4.1 | 4.1 |
Confectionery and Jam | 3.1 | 5.7 |
Popper | 1.1 | 0.8 |
Wine | 10.4 | 6.9 |
Beer | 5.8 | 2.0 |
Spirits | 9.3 | 10.6 |
Drugs | 7.1 | 7.0 |
Other Articles | 9.0 | 8.9 |
All Articles | 8.1 | 9.3 |
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