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54 of these samples were certified to contain added water, the highest amount
being 42 per cent., but the majority being less than 2 per cent.
Six of the samples showed deficiency in fat ranging from less than 1 per cent,
to 13 per cent., whilst the remaining 3 samples were deficient both in milk fat and
non fatty solids.
Legal proceedings were instituted in 8, or 12.5 per cent., of the cases in which
samples of milk were below standard.
No legal proceedings were considered advisable in the remainder of the milk
samples which were below standard. The percentage of adulterated samples of milk
in which it was not thought advisable to institute legal proceedings was 87-5.
PRESERVATIVES IN FOOD REGULATIONS
All articles taken were in accordance with the regulations.
SHOPS ACT, 1934
This Act, which came into operation on the 31st December, 1934, requires the
Sanitary Authority to enforce various sanitary and hygienic provisions. The Council
have appointed each of its sanitary inspectors to enforce the provisions of the Act.
SWIMMING BATHS AND POOLS
There are two publicly owned swimming baths in the borough namely, Hoxton
Baths, Pitfield Street, which consists of a first-class swimming bath and a secondclass
swimming bath, both used for mixed bathing, and the Haggerston Bath,
Mansfield Street, which is also used for mixed bathing. There are no privately
owned swimming baths or pools in the district which are open to the public.
The water in the baths is cleansed by a system of continuous filtration, sedimentation,
chlorination and subsequent aeration and it is subjected to chemical and bacteriological
tests from time to time. The last analyses taken in October and November,
1937, showed the water to be, in the opinion of the public analyst, reasonably
satisfactory for swimming baths.
LEGAL PROCEEDINGS
Legal proceedings taken during the year are shown in Appendix D on page 157.