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Marylebone 1927

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

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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 ExaminedNumber Adulterated, etc.
No.ArticleFormalInformalPrivateTotalFormalInformalPrivateTotal
1Apples15—611—2
2Apple Cyder—3-3
3Beef Sausages124-25
4Bicarbonate of Soda—5-5
5Black Currant Wine—1-1
6Blackberry Jelly—1-1
7Boracic Ointment—4-4
8Butter5291-143
9Candied Peel—2-2
10Cheese—60-60
11Cherry Cyder—1-1
12Chicory—6-6
13Cocoa—10-10
14Coffee—60-60
15Coffee and Chicory Essence—4-4
16Coffee Essence—3-3
17Condensed Milk—62-62
18Cream252-27
19Cream Cheese—6-6
20Cream, Tinned—4-4
21Currants—5-5
22Custard Powder—2-2
23Demerara Sugar—2-2
24Dried Fruit—6-6
25Fish Pasta—9-9
26Flour—1-1
27Gelatine—1-1
28Ginger Beer—2-2
29Glace Cherries—8-8
30Glace Fruit13-4
31Granulated Sugar—8-8
32Grape Fruit—4-4
33Honey—6-6
34Jam—31-31
35Lard—50-50
36Lemonade—1-1
37Lemon Cheese—3-3
38Lemonade Powder—5-5
39Manna Loaf—1-1
40Margarine—41-41
41Marmalade—16-16
42Meat Paste—10-10
43Milk22350-27371-8
44Mincemeat—2-2
45Mixed Fruit—1-1
46Mustard—5-5
47Mustard Compound—1-1
48Olive Oil—1-1
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