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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
ANNUAL STATEMENT
Of the work done in the Metropolitan Borough of Wandsworth
under the Sale of Food and Drugs and Margarine Acts,
summarised from the Quarterly Reports.
To the Mayor Aldermen and Councillors of the Metropolitan
Borough of Wandsworth.
Mr. Mayor, Ladies and Gentlemen,
Herewith we beg to submit to you our report of the work
performed by us under the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts during
the year 1920.
This report is signed by us jointly owing to the fact that
your Additional Public Analyst was left in sole charge during the
absence, from August to December, of your Public Analyst
owing to illness.
During the year, 1,867 samples were received and duly
reported upon.
Of these samples, 872 were submitted formally, whilst 995
were informal.
109 samples in all were reported against, being 5.7 per cent.
of those examined. Of the formal samples 67, or 7.5 per cent.,
were returned as adulterated, whilst 42, or 4.2 per cent. of the
informal samples, were found unsatisfactory.
Below we give a statement showing the nature of the samples
submitted, together with the number of each variety reported1
against.
In separate tables the nature cf the Drugs, "Other Articles,"
and Milk and Cream examined, with any adulteration reported,
are given.