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Marylebone 1927

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Marylebone, Metropolitan Borough]

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Table: ANNUAL REPORT OF THE PUBLIC ANALYST, 1927. The number of samples taken under the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts and submitted to analysis, was 1,070; a decrease as compared with the samples for 1926, the number for that year being 1,103. Of these 1,070 samples nearly 1 out of every 100 was an adulterated sample, the exact percentage being 0.934.A complete list is as follows :

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ANNUAL REPORT OF THE PUBLIC ANALYST, 1927. The number of samples taken under the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts and submitted to analysis, was 1,070; a decrease as compared with the samples for 1926, the number for that year being 1,103. Of these 1,070 samples nearly 1 out of every 100 was an adulterated sample, the exact percentage being 0.934.

A complete list is as follows :

ANALYSES
		Number Examined				Number Adulterated, etc.
No.	Article	Formal	Informal	Private	Total	Formal	Informal	Private	Total
1	Apples	1	5	—	6	1	1	—	2
2	Apple Cyder	—	3	-	3
3	Beef Sausages	1	24	-	25
4	Bicarbonate of Soda	—	5	-	5
5	Black Currant Wine	—	1	-	1
6	Blackberry Jelly	—	1	-	1
7	Boracic Ointment	—	4	-	4
8	Butter	52	91	-	143
9	Candied Peel	—	2	-	2
10	Cheese	—	60	-	60
11	Cherry Cyder	—	1	-	1
12	Chicory	—	6	-	6
13	Cocoa	—	10	-	10
14	Coffee	—	60	-	60
15	Coffee and Chicory Essence	—	4	-	4
16	Coffee Essence	—	3	-	3
17	Condensed Milk	—	62	-	62
18	Cream	25	2	-	27
19	Cream Cheese	—	6	-	6
20	Cream, Tinned	—	4	-	4
21	Currants	—	5	-	5
22	Custard Powder	—	2	-	2
23	Demerara Sugar	—	2	-	2
24	Dried Fruit	—	6	-	6
25	Fish Pasta	—	9	-	9
26	Flour	—	1	-	1
27	Gelatine	—	1	-	1
28	Ginger Beer	—	2	-	2
29	Glace Cherries	—	8	-	8
30	Glace Fruit	1	3	-	4
31	Granulated Sugar	—	8	-	8
32	Grape Fruit	—	4	-	4
33	Honey	—	6	-	6
34	Jam	—	31	-	31
35	Lard	—	50	-	50
36	Lemonade	—	1	-	1
37	Lemon Cheese	—	3	-	3
38	Lemonade Powder	—	5	-	5
39	Manna Loaf	—	1	-	1
40	Margarine	—	41	-	41
41	Marmalade	—	16	-	16
42	Meat Paste	—	10	-	10
43	Milk	223	50	-	273	7	1	-	8
44	Mincemeat	—	2	-	2
45	Mixed Fruit	—	1	-	1
46	Mustard	—	5	-	5
47	Mustard Compound	—	1	-	1
48	Olive Oil	—	1	-	1
	Carried forward	303	629		932	8	2		10

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