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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 1910
[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 years 1908-9 in England and Wales:—
| Percentage Adulterated. | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1908. | l909. | |
| Milk | 10.5 | 9.7 |
| Butter | 7.5 | 5.7 |
| Cheese | l.5 | 0.6 |
| Margarine | 2.8 | 3.6 |
| Lard | 0.8 | 1.8 |
| Bread | 1.0 | 0.6 |
| Flour | o.o | 0.2 |
| Tea | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Coffee | 5.3 | 5.1 |
| Cocoa | 10.0 | 3.7 |
| Sugar | 8.1 | 5.9 |
| Mustard | 3.3 | 4.0 |
| Confectionery and Jam | 3.8 | 3.4 |
| Pepper | 0.6 | 0.4 |
| Wine | 4.3 | 10.6 |
| Beer | 1.8 | 0.9 |
| Spirits | 10.6 | 9.9 |
| Drugs | 9.0 | 6.9 |
| Other Articles | 9.7 | 8.6 |
| All Articles | 8.5 | 7.5 |
In London, as a whole, one sample was analysed for every 187
persons, being at the rate of 5.4 per 1,000 of the population of 1901.
In Stoke Newington the proportion was one sample to every 349,
being at the rate of barely 3 per 1.000 of the present population.