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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

Wandsworth 1920

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]

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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.

Table: Milk and Cream.

Milk and Cream.

Nature of Sample.Examined.Adulterated.
Formal.Informal.Total.Formal.Informal.Total.
Milk7971981655661
Hot Milk12...122...2
Separated Milk56...565...5
Condensed Milk...22...00
Cream, fresh...4141...11
Cream, preserved...3333...33
Total86595960621072

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Thus, the amount of adulteration reported in the case of the
Milk and Cream samples submitted was, for formal samples, 7.0
per cent. ; for informal samples, 10.5 per cent. ; and for all samples,
7.4 per cent.
Butter.
Of the 632 samples of Butter submitted, two only were formal
samples, and both of these were reported against, as under :

Table: Butter.Of the 632 samples of Butter submitted, two only were formal samples, and both of these were reported against, as under :

Butter.

Of the 632 samples of Butter submitted, two only were formal samples, and both of these were reported against, as under :

Case No.Nature of Report.
2 4420 per cent. Margarine.
42844 per cent. Margarine.

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In the case of the 6.30 informal samples of butter, 18, or 2.8
per cent., were reported against. Of these, 16 were found to
contain margarine, and two excess of boron preservative,