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I am indebted to Mr. H. C. Card, Chief Food and Drugs Officer for the
Metropolitan Area of the Essex County Council, for the particulars of samples
purchased and submitted for analysis during the year. These samples are submitted
for chemical examination to Dr. Bernard Dyer, the County Analyst, Great Tower
Street, London.

No proceedings were instituted during the period covered.
4. CHEMICAL AND BACTERIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION OF FOOD.
The bacteriological examination of all milk, ice-cream and water samples is
carried out for this Authority by the Counties' Public Health Laboratories, of 91,
Queen Victoria Street, London, whilst the examination of samples, of milk for the
presence of tubercle is carried out by Dr. S. R. Gloyne, of the Victoria Park
Hospital, Hackney.
5. NUTRITION.
The dissemination of knowledge on nutrition is a particularly difficult subject.
W e are indebted to our teachers who are bringing lip a generation who will have a
much sounder knowledge of food values than had their fathers and mothers.
As I have said elsewhere, if the right kinds of food in sufficient quantity
and variation are placed before the public at the right prices, it is not likely that
there will be much, if any, deficient nutrition.
I do, however, deprecate the use by people who can ill afford them of patent
foods, whose essential values can be obtained in the ordinary market at much less
cost than of the patent foods themselves. Personally, I always make a point of
avoiding these foods in hospital treatment, not only because they are not value
for money, but because I think it is a wise education for people to realise that the
best feeding does not include these foods.