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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

City of London 1903

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London, City of ]

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Table: Third Quarter.

Third Quarter.

Sample.Nature and Extent of Adulteration.Result.
667 Milk24 per cent. of fat abstracted£3 and 17s. 6d. expenses.
669 „17 per cent. of fat abstracted£10 and 23s. expenses.
845 „7 per cent. of added waterDismissed; warranty proved.
855 „11 per cent. of added water£1 and 13s. 6d. expenses.
Fourth Quarter.
1080 Milk4 per cent. of added water and 7 per cent. of fat abstracted.£5 and 12s. 6d. expenses.
1107 „19 per cent. of added water£5 and 12s. 6d. expenses.
1120 „9 per cent. of added water5s. and 17s. 6d. expenses.
1121 „6 per cent. of added water and 29 per cent. of fat abstracted.40s. and 17s. 6d. expenses.
1180 „12 per cent, of added water£20 and 16s. 6d. expenses.

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SUMMARY.
£ s. d. £ 8. d.
First Quarter : Fines 34 0 0 Expenses 11 0 0
Second Quarter „ 13 0 0 „ 2 16
Third Quarter „ 14 0 0 „ 2 14 0
Fourth Quarter „ 32 5 0 „ 3 16 6
£93 5 0 £19 12 0
Twenty-three fines were inflicted during the year, and the average fine and expenses imposed
was £4 18s. 1d.,the corresponding amounts for 1901 and 1902 being £3 15s. 7d. and £4 2s. 2d.
respectively.
REPORT OF THE ROYAL COMMISSION ON ARSENICAL
POISONING.
This Commission was appointed on the 4th February, 1901, in consequence
of a serious epidemic in the latter part of 1900, due to arsenical contamination
of beer at numerous breweries, owing to the use of glucose or "invert" sugar
manufactured by a single firm at Gars ton, near Liverpool.
The report is an exhaustive one, and although of much importance and
interest, far too lengthy to discuss in detail. Those interested in the subject
should read the report as a whole.