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Report of the Medical Officer of Health for 1940.
pickles and sauces, 33; rice, 30; sage, 5; salad oil, 7; salt, 10;
spice, 8; sponge mixture, 2; soup, canned, 7; suet, 14; sugar, 3;
tapioca, 13; tea, 11; treacle, 1; vegetables, canned and dried,
48 ; vinegar, 8; yeast, 10.
The average water content of the four samples of butter
proved to be 13 5 per cent.; that of the 25 samples of margarine,
14.8 per cent.
Six of the samples were submitted for analysis on the complaint
of ratepayers, viz., three samples of butter, one of canned
fish, one of sugar and one of black treacle. The sample of sugar
was the one found to be adulterated with 14 per cent. of ground
rice. The other five samples were genuine.
Drugs.
183 samples of drugs were analysed. Two only were adulterated,
viz.:—
No. 584, Syrup of Senna: Devoid of sugar.
No. 691, Syrup of Senna: 52 per cent. deficient in sugar.
In conclusion I have to report that the adulteration detected
during 1940 amounted to 1.63 per cent. of the formal samples,
to 0.29 per cent. of the informal samples and to 0 84 per cent. of
all samples submitted.
The cost of the above analyses was covered by the Analyst's
salary of £900 per annum.
I have the honour to be,
Mr. Mayor, Ladies and Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
A. H. MUTER, F.I.C., F.C.S.,
Public Analyst.
325, Kennington Road,
London, S.E. 11,