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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 1911
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Stoke Newington, The Metropolitan Borough]
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TABLE X.
Showing the results of Analysis of Samples taken under the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts, during the years 1909-10 in England and Wales:—
| Percentage Adulterated. | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1910. | 1909. | |
| Milk | 11.1 | 9.7 |
| Butter | 5.1 | 5.7 |
| Cheese | 3.1 | 0.6 |
| Margarine | 3.2 | 3.6 |
| Lard | 1.8 | 1.3 |
| Bread | 0.0 | 0.6 |
| Flour | 1.1 | 0.2 |
| Tea | 1.4 | 0.0 |
| Coffee | 5.1 | 5.1 |
| Cocoa | 14.0 | 3.7 |
| Sugar | 3.3 | 5.9 |
| Mustard | 2.6 | 4.0 |
| Confectionery and Jam | 4.7 | 3.4 |
| Pepper | 0.5 | 0.4 |
| Wine | 5.3 | 10.6 |
| Beer | 3.0 | 0.9 |
| Spirits | 10.3 | 9.9 |
| Drugs | 6.8 | 6.9 |
| Other Articles | 9.0 | 8.6 |
| All Articles | 8.2 | 7.5 |
In Metropolitan London, as a whole, one sample was analysed
lor every 184 persons, being at the rate of 5.4 per 1,000 of the