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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 1914

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Stoke Newington, The Metropolitan Borough]

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Table: TABLE X.Showing the results of Analysis of Samples taken under theSale of Food and Drugs Acts, during the years 1912-13in England and Wales.

TABLE X.

Showing the results of Analysis of Samples taken under the

Sale of Food and Drugs Acts, during the years 1912-13

in England and Wales.

Percentage Adulterated.
1912.1913.
Milk10.9
Butter6.0
Cheese2.5
Margarine2.1
Lard0.4
Bread0.0
Flour2.6
Tea0.0
Coffee4.8
Cocoa3.4
Sugar5.1
Mustard2.5
Confectionery and Jam5.5
Pepper0.8
Wine10.6
Beer5.5
Spirits9.6
Drugs9.0
Other Articles10.8
All Articles8.4
* Owing to the delay in the publication o the Official Report for 1913, these figures cannot be given at the time of going to press.