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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 1928
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London, City of ]
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| Name of Article. | Identification No. given to the sample in the Quarterly Report. | Result of Analysis. | If any legal proceedings were instituted under the Sale of Food & Drugs Acts, state result, showing fines and costs separately. | If any legal proceedings were instituted under Acts other than the Sale of Food & Drugs Acts, state result, showing fines and costs separately. | If no legal proceedings were instituted, state briefly the course adopted in regard to each sample. | Information, if any, as to previous convictions. | Remarks on any point of special interest. |
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| Quarter ending 31st March, 1928. Butter | 19 | Boric Acid present to the extent of 0.07% | .... | .... | Informal sample. Subsequent formal sample genuine. | .... | .... |
| Dried Full Cream Milk | 150 | Defective label on tin | .... | .... | Attention of Manufacturers drawn to the breach of the Regulations. | .... | .... |
| Milk | 163 | 17% fat abstracted | Fined £3 and £2 2s. costs. | .... | .... | Fined £2 and £2 12s. 6d. Costs, 16th Dec., 1927, for selling Milk containing 11% added water. | .... |
| Sweet Spirit of Nitre | 183 | 59% deficient in Ethyl Nitrite | .... | .... | Informal sample. Resampled formally. | .... | .... |
| Sweet Spirit of Nitre | 236 | 58% deficient in Ethyl Nitrite | Fined £5 5s. & | .... | .... | .... | Same Vendor as No. 183. |
| Whisky | 281 | 39.7 degrees under proof | Fined £2 2s. & £2 2s. Costs. | .... | .... | .... | |
| Milk | 352 | 6% fat abstracted | .... | .... | Consignor communicated with and cautioned. | .... | .... |
| Milk | 453 | 12% added water | Fined £1 and £2 2s. Costs. | .... | .... | .... | .... |
| Orange and Quinine Wine. | 466 | 80% deficient in Quinine Hydrochloride. | .... | .... | Informal sample. Subsequent formal sample genuine. | .... | Similar bottle as that containing the informal sample served at the time formal sample taken, but declared to be "Not B.P. standard." |
| Milk | 470 | 6% added water | Fined £2 and £2 2s. Costs. | .... | .... | .... | Taken in course of delivery to Vendor of Sample No. 453. |
| Milk | 530 | 13% fat abstracted | Dismissed. | .... | .... | .... | Magistrate satisfied milk delivered as given by the cow. |
| Milk | 533 | 26% fat abstracted | Dismissed. | .... | .... | .... | Magistrate satisfied milk delivered as given by the cow. Same Consignor as Sample No. 530. |
| Milk | 551 | 6% added water | Dismissed under Probation of Offenders Act with £5 5s. Costs. | .... | .... | .... | Same Consignor as Sample No. 352. |
| Milk | 552 | 2% added water | Dismissed under Probation of Of fenders Act. | .... | .... | .... | Same Consignor as No. 551. |
| Milk | 553 | 6% added water | Dismissed under Probation of Offenders Act with £5 5s. | .... | .... | .... | Same Consignor as Samples No. 551 and 552. |
| Liniment of Turpentine | 629 | 56% deficient in Rectified Oil of Turpentine. | .... | Informal sample. Subsequent formal sample genuine. | .... | .... | |
| Pork Sausages | 670 | Sulphur Dioxide, 200 parts per million. | .... | .... | Informal sample. Subsequent formal sample genuine. | .... | Formal sample taken also from Wholesale Supplier of these Sausages proved genuine. |
| White Precipitate Ointment. | 721 | 38% deficient in Ammoniated Mercury. | .... | .... | Informal sample. Resampled formally. | .... | |
| Milk | 743 | 2% added water | .... | .... | Resampled | .... | .... |
| White Precipitate Ointment. | 764 | 64% deficient in Ammoniated Mercury. | Fined £5 and £2 2s. Costs. | .... | .... | .... | Same Vendor as Sample No. 721. |
| Milk | 773 | 7% added water | Fined £5 and | .... | .... | .... | .... |
| Condensed Full Cream Milk—Sweetened | 863 | Defective label on tin | .... | .... | Attention of Manufacturers drawn to the breach of the Regulations. | .... | .... |
| Milk | 871 | 3% added water | Dismissed under Probation of Of fenders Act. | .... | .... | Same Consignor as No. 743. | |
| Milk | 872 | 16% added water | Fined £5 and £3 3s. Costs. | .... | .... | Same Consignor as Samples Nos. 743 and 871. | |
| Preservative Powder for Sausages. | 1000 | Genuine as to absence of prohil ited preservatives, but 39% deficient in Sulphur Dioxide and labelling of tin defective. | .... | .... | Vendors communicated with and cautioned. | Fined £1 and 2s. Costs, 15th Nov., 1927, for selling Sausage Preservative Powder containing 0.30% Boric Acid. | .... |