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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 1910
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, London, Borough of]
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Post- Scriptum .
Without definitions the Food and Drugs Acts are of little value. Even if
it be proved that a valuable constituent has been partly abstracted and a less
valuable substance partly substituted, in the absence of definition the case
would be dismissed. Before standards of foods were fixed in America it was
the common and growing practice to substitute the cheapest fats and oils more
and more for nutritious fats and oils used as foods. Now all foods and drugs
are defined as to composition in America.
J. F. J. S.
| No. of Sample. | Article. | Result of Analysis. | Result of Proceedings. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Penalty. | Costs. | |||||||
| s. | d. | s. | d. | |||||
| C 8 | Milk | Added Water 22 per cent. | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 6 |
| C 12 | „ | „ 12 ,, | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | is | 6 |
| 4 | Butter | Foreign Fats, i.e., Fats other than Butter Fat, 83 per cent. ......... | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 6 |
| C 26 | Milk | Added Water 7.6 per cent. | — | 0 | 12 | 6 | ||
| C 39 | Butter | Foreign Fats, i.e., Fats other than Butter Fat, 58 percent. | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 6 |
| 34 | Milk | Added Water 7.2 per cent. | I | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 6 |
| 14 | „ | Deficient in Milk Fat 13.3 per cent | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 6 |
| 45 | ,, | Added Water 8 per cent. | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 6 |
| C 64 | „ | „ 8.4 „ | \ | |||||
| C 66 | „ | „ 15.3 ,, | ||||||
| c 70 | „ | „ 8.7 „ | 10 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| C 71 | „ | „ 7.8 „ | ||||||
| C 72 | „ | „ 68 ,, | ||||||
| C 73 | „ | ,, 6 ,, | / | |||||
| C 69 | „ | „ 71 „ | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 6 |
| 65 | „ | Deficient in Milk Fat 6.6 per cent. | 0 | 12 | 6 | |||
| 87 | „ | Added Water 7 per cent | Summons withdrawn. | |||||
| 75 | Coffee | Chicory 20 per cent. | — | 0 | 12 | 6 | ||
| 107 | Milk | Deficient in Milk Fat 6.7 per cent. | — | 0 | 12 | 6 | ||
| C 112 | „ | „ „ 11.3 „ | — | 0 | 12 | 6 | ||
| 116 | „ | „ „ 116 „ | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 6 |
| A 23 | Butter | Foreign Fats, i.e., Fats other than Butter Fat, 84 | ||||||
| per cent. | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 6 | ||
| A 25 | „ | Water 8.4 per cent, in excess of standard | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 6 |
| A 26 | Lard | 100 per cent. Fat Foreign to Genuine Lard | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 6 |
| C 143 | „ | ,, ,, ,, | 1 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 6 |
| C 145 | „ | 50 ,, ,, ,, and 6.7 | ||||||
| per cent. of water | 1 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 6 | ||
| 164 | Butter | Foreign Fats, i.e., Fats other than Butter Fat, 25 percent. | 2 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 6 |
| 169 | Milk | Deficient in Milk Fat 16 6 per cent. | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 6 |
| C 152 | Lard | Foreign Fats 100 per cent. | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 6 |
| C 176 | Milk | Deficient in Milk Fat 7 per cent | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 6 |
| C 216 | „ | „ „ 6 „ | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 0 |
| C 270 | „ | „ „ 27.3 „ | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 6 |
| C 271 | „ | „ „ 92.6 „ Crystallised Copper Sulphate 5.81 grs. per lb. | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 6 |
| 291 | Spinach | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 6 | |
| C 316 | Milk | Added Water 19 6 per cent. | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| £ 52 | 3 | 0 | 26 | 11 | 6 | |||
§ 4—FOOD INSPECTORS' REPORTS.
Food Inspectors.—The history of food inspection in St. Pancras may be
briefly stated in order that it may be made clear. Upon their original
appointment, Inspectors Osborne (October, 1885), Auger (January, 1897), and
hackham (January, 1898) were not appointed Inspectors under the Food and
Drugs Acts, but at this period, and previous thereto, all the Sanitary Inspectors
took samples. Owing to some doubt arising as to whether Sanitary Inspectors,
not being styled Inspectors of Nuisances, required special authorisation, in