London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
View report page
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]
This page requires JavaScript
71
8 of the samples purchased in the Borough in 1909 were not
satisfactory; and, therefore the percentage of non-genuine samples
amounted to about 5.1 per cent., a figure which is slightly above that
of the preceding year, when it was 7 per cent. The figure for the whole
country was 8.5 per cent. during the year 1908.
8.7 per cent. of the milk samples were unsatisfactory, as against
8.4 per cent. during the preceding year; but in some cases the
deficiency below the legal limits was very slight. The percentage of
adulteration of milk for the whole country during 1908 was 10.5. In
London the percentage reported against was 9.9.