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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
Marylebone 1924
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Marylebone, Metropolitan Borough]
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| Articles submitted for Analysis. | State whether the sample was submitted to the Analyst by an Officer acting under direction of a Local Authority, under Section 13 of Act, and, if so, the name of such Authority. | Result of Analysis; showing whether the sample was Genuine or Adulterated, and, if Adulterated, what were the nature and extent ot the Adulteration. | The sum paid in respect of the Analysis. | Observations. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 47 butter | Food Inspector, St. Marylebone Borough Council | Genuine. | 43 were test samples. Of the 50 samples of butter examined only one was entirely free from preservative; all the others contained boric acid in amounts which range from 7.2 to 26.4 grains per lb. | ||
| 3 butter | Do. | Adulterated. | |||
| No. 840 not butter but margarine. | Fined £8 0s. 0d. Costs £3 5s. 0d. | ||||
| No. 870 Do. | This was a test sample. | ||||
| No. 1008 Do. | Fined £5 0s. 0d. Costs £4 3s. 0d. | ||||
| 4 icing sugar | Do. | Genuine. | 3 were test samples, | ||
| 12 margarine | Do. | Do. | All were test samples | ||
| 24 cheese | Do. | Do. | |||
| 5 lard | Do. | Do. | |||
| 1 Atora suet | Do. | Do. | |||
| 1 tea | Do. | Do. | |||
| 20 coffee | Do. | Do. | |||
| 3 cocoa | Do. | Do. | |||
| 1 granulated sugar | Do. | Do. | |||
| 1 honey | Do. | Do. | |||
| 2 golden syrup | Do. | Do. | |||
| 2 jam | Do. | Do. | |||
| 1 bramble jelly | Do. | Do. | |||
| 1 marmalade | Do. | Do. | |||
| 5 mustaad | Do. | Do. | |||
| 5 pepper | Do. | Do. | |||
| 2 arrowroot | Do. | Do. | |||
| 6 sponge cake | Do. | Do. | |||
| 1 ginger wine | Do. | Do. | |||
| 1 raisin wine | Do. | Do. | |||
| 1 orange wine | Do. | Do. | |||
| 2 milk of sulphur | Do. | Do. | |||
| 6 sulphur ointment | Do, | Do. | |||
| 5 boric acid powd'r | Do. | Do. | |||
| 3 borax | Do. | Do. | |||
| 2 compound liquorice powder | Do. | Do. | |||
| 5 whisky | Do. | Do. | |||
| 1 whisky | Do. | Adulterated. | |||
| No. Nature of Adulteration. | |||||
| 909 36.59% under proof instead of 35% | |||||
| 2 boric ointment | Do. | Genuine. | |||
| Total number of Samples analysed during the Quarter | 303 | ||||
| Number of Samples adulterated | 7 | ||||