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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 1909

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

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Table: Milk Sampling Analysis.—An analysis of the Inspectors' Sampling Books and of the Quarterly Returns of the Public Analyst (omitting samples sent direct to him and not through the Public Health Department] show the following circumstances and results as regards milk:—

Milk Sampling Analysis.—An analysis of the Inspectors' Sampling Books and of the Quarterly Returns of the Public Analyst (omitting samples sent direct to him and not through the Public Health Department] show the following circumstances and results as regards milk:—

Stage of Sale.Place.Reason.Number of Milk samples examined.Result of Analysis.Prosecutions
Genuine.Adulterated.
On sale toIn streetPeriodical—Week-day1385..
public„ Sunday9882162
By request11....
„In shopPeriodical—W eek-day143107366
„ Sunday25223..
Consecutive..• •..• •
By request........
On deliveryAt shopPeriodical........
Consecutive........
By request11....
„At Railway Depot or StationPeriodical64622..
Consecutive........
By request211297
Totals3662957115

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Warranties.—It is the practice of the Food Inspectors when sampling1 to
inquire whether a warranty in any form is held by the vendor, and if there
be a warranty and the sample prove to be adulterated, to take a sample of the
milk of the guarantor upon delivery at the vendor's premises. The control
sample is not a sample of the suspected milk, but it affords evidence in somedegree
of the kind of milk supplied by the guarantor.
The Board of Agriculture point out that the repeal of the "Warranty Clauses
is demanded by those who desire to strengthen the law as to fraudulent
adulteration as well as those who desire to protect the farmer. It is alleged
that certain dealers and milk sellers are adulterating milk and selling the milk
which they know to be adulterated, relying on those Clauses to afford an
almost certain way of escape in case they are prosecuted.