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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
Stoke Newington 1909
[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 1908 in England and Wales:—
| Percentage Adulterated. | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1907. | 1908. | |
| Milk | 10.5 | 10.5 |
| Butter | 6.6 | 7.5 |
| Cheese | 0.7 | 1.5 |
| Margarine | 42 | 2.8 |
| 0.1 | 0.8 | |
| Bread | 0.8 | 1.0 |
| Flour | 1.3 | 0.0 |
| Tea | 0.3 | 0.0 |
| Coffee | 5.0 | 5.3 |
| Cocoa | 5.0 | 10.0 |
| Sugar | 4.0 | 8.1 |
| Mustard | 4.1 | 3.3 |
| Confectionery and Jam | 3.1 | 3.8 |
| Pepper | 1.1 | 0.6 |
| Wine | 10.4 | 4.3 |
| Beer | 5.8 | 1.8 |
| Spirits | 9.3 | 10.6 |
| Drugs | 7.1 | 9.0 |
| Other Articles | 9.0 | 9.7 |
| All Articles | 8.1 | 8.5 |
In London, as a whole, one sample was analysed for every 188
persons, being at the rate of 5.3 per 1,000 of the population of 1901
In Stoke Newington the proportion was one sample to every 347,
being at the rate of 3 per 1,000 of the present population.