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Name. Address. Offence. Fine.
S. Pryer, 102, Carlisle Milk deficient in £2
Street, milk fat 7 per
cent.
Johns H. Harvey, 25, Exeter Street, Milk diluted with .£5
21.9 per cent.
water
F. P. Wallace, 32, Burne Street, Milk diluted with 10/-
13 per cent, water
Wellington 7, Eamont Street, Milk diluted with 10/-
Green, 10 per cent, water
Florence 14, Exeter Street, Milk diluted with 5/-
Haward, 8 percent, water
Alice Burgess, 8, Homer Street, Milk diluted with 10/-
15.8 per cent.
water
Mary Hayter, 2, Hereford Street, Milk diluted with 10/-
15.6 per cent.
water
Robert Norman, Devonshire Mews Selling margarine £5
East, as butter
Mary Williams, 2, Great Chester- Selling margarine 5/-
field Street, as butter
The total fines recovered were £46.
The official standard for milk is 8'5% solids not fat,
which means milk sugar, casein and mineral matters, and 3%
milk fat, which is practically butter fat, and the samples
ranged from as low as 6'75% solids not fat, to as high as
9 96%, or just under 10%.
The milk fat ranged from 2"5% up to 6% milk fat, but
the mean or average composition of the whole is equal to
9'o6% solids not fat, and 3'57% milk fat, thus showing that
save from the few offenders against the law, quite a good milk
is sold in the district.
One hundred and sixty-six butters were examined, 13 of
which were found to be adulterated, that is to say, no one of
the 13 were samples of butter, they were all margarines.
These were purchased in the ordinary way, and the vendors
had no suspicion that the samples were intended for analysis.
In nine of the cases when the Inspector arrived on a second
visit with bag and wrappers, the samples purchased were found
to be butters ; in two cases the shops were closed, and in the
remaining two margarine was sold as butter and the vendors
prosecuted and fined. A very instructive history, showing
that official sampling under the Sale of Food and Drugs Act only
imperfectly protects the public.
A list of the samples analysed under the Sale of Food
and Drugs Acts is to be found in Table III.