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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
Table CXXIV. shows the number of samples taken, the number
adulterated, and the percentage of adulterated samples for the
10 years 1903-1912, compared with the year 1913.
From this table it will be seen that the average percentage
of adulterations detected for the 10 years 1903-1912 was 10.7 per
cent., compared with 11.0 in 1913.
The following table shows the number of formal and informal
samples taken in each sub-district of the Borough, together with
the number taken per 1,000 of population, the number adulterated,
and the percentage adulterated to the formal and informal and
to the total samples taken.
It will be noted that of the formal samples 13.4 per tent.
were adulterated, compared with 15.1 per cent, in 1912, while of
the informal 8.4 per cent. were adulterated, compared with 22.4 per
cent. in 1912.