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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

St Pancras 1900

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, London, Borough of]

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Table: SUMMONSES—Under the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts, &c.

SUMMONSES—Under the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts, &c.

No.Nature of Article as Purchased.Result of analysis.Result of Proceedings.
Penalty.Costs.
739MilkAdded Water 8 per cent.£s.d.£s.d.
-0126
231,,„ 17 „500220
232,,„ 9 „1000126
765,,„ 9 ,,2000126
767,,„ 7 „2000126
776,,„41 „500130
679,,„ 9 ,,-220
783,,„ 11 „500156
258,,Deficient in Butter Fat 13 per cent.300110
262,,Added Water 8 per cent.-0126
788,,Added Water 15 per cent., and deficient in Butter Fat 11 per cent.1000126
789,,Added Water 13 per cent., and deficient in Butter Fat 6 per cent.1000126
792,,Deficient in Butter Fat 49 per cent.1000160
796,,Added Water 16 per cent.400100
800,,„8 „1000126
803ButterForeign Fats, i.e., Fats other than Butter Fat, 87 per cent.1000126
817MilkAdded Water 11 per cent.3000126
819,,„ 12 „8001126
839,,Deficient in Butter Fat 11 per cent.2000126
850PepperForeign Starchy Farina 50 per cent.0760126
4ButterForeign Fats, i.e., Fata other than Butter Fat, 73 per cent.5000126
026020
*877MilkAdded Water 31 per cent.1000_
*278,,„ 18 „500_
10ButterForeign Fats, i.e., Fats other than Butter Fat, 81 per cent.1000126
-020
885CheeseFats other than Butter Fat 28 per cent.5000126
-020
*19MilkAdded Water 15 per cent.1000220
909,,,, 10 ,,800200
23PepperForeign Starchy Farina 50 per cent.2000126
929Sweet Spirit of NitreDeficient in Nitrous Ether 40 per cent.Summons dismissed. Magistrate held that the notioe by label on bottle amounted to disclosure of the alteration of the drug.
965MilkAdded Water 16 per cent.2000126
973,,,, 12 ,,1000126
975ButterForeign Fats, i.e., Fats other than Butter Fat, 87 per cent.2000126 .
85,,,, 58 ,,5000126
131MilkDeficient in Butter Fat 22 per cent.2000126

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* These Samples were procured at the Railway Terminus in the course of delivery to the Consignee.
Arsenic in Beer.—Towards the end of the year much sickness and a number
of deaths in the north of England were traced to poison by arsenic through
the medium of beer, into which it had passed with the sugar manufactured
from impure sulphuric acid. A few samples in St. Pancras were submitted to
analysis, and found arsenic free, and the arsenical poisoning did not extend to
London.