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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

Stepney 1935

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Stepney]

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Date.Matter of information or complaint.Result.
25th JulyCarrying on the business of a dairy on 23rd June, on unregistered premises.Fined £1 0s. 0d. with £1 Is. 0d. costs.
29th JulyCarrying on the business of a dairy at 65, Vallance Road, E.l, on 10th July, the said premises not being registered as a dairy.Fined £5 0s. 0d. with £3 3s. 0d. costs.
29th July.(a) for filling dirty milk bottles with milk on 10th July; (6) failing to take all practicable precautions for preventing the contamination of milk, on the same date.Summonses withdrawn.
9th SeptSelling milk on 19th July, from a foul and rusted half-pint milk measure.Fined £1 0s.0d. with £1 1s. 0d. costs.
9th Sept.Maintaining the milk shop at 25, Heneage Street in a dirty and unwholesome condition on the 22nd July.Fined £1 0s. 0d. with £2 2s. 0d. costs.
21st Oct.Removing the disc from a closed bottle of milk and selling the milk on 2nd September on premises not registered.Fined £2.
29th Oct.Carrying on the business of Dairyman at 220, Bow Common Lane on 18th September without being registered.Fined £3 with £2 2s. 0d. costs.
18th Nov.Selling milk, on 1st October, without being registered. (Case adjourned from 11th November).Case was withdrawn.
Milk Act, 1934.
7th Aug.Selling milk on 10th July, with a description " Pasteuris< d Milk" without being licensed to do so.Fined £1 0s. 0d. with £2 2s. Od. costs.
Food and Drugs (Adulteration) Act, 1928.
14th Jan.Selling milk deficient in solids-not-fat to the extent of 6.2 per cent. on 5th December, 1934. (Sample X.66.)Fined £2 0s. 0d. with £2 2s. Od. costs.
1st Feb.Selling milk deficient in solids-not-fat to the extent of 6.6 per cent. (due to the presence of at least 9.2 per cent. added water) on 18th December, 1934 (Sample E.83).Dismissed under Probation of Offenders Act on payment of £2 2s. 0d. costs.
13th FebSelling milk deficient in fat to the extent of 13.3 per cent. and solids-not-fat to the extent of 26.4 per cent. on 9th January. (Sample B.16.)Fined £5 0s. Od. with £1 0s. 0d. costs, or one month in default of distress.
13th FebSelling milk deficient in solids-not-fat to the extent of 10.9 per cent. on 9th January. (Sample B.15.)Fined £3 0s. Od. with £1 0s. 0d. costs.
13th FebSelling milk deficient in solids-not-fat to the extent of 35.6 per cent. and fat to the extent of 40.3 per cent. on 9th February. (Sample B.13.)Fined £3 0s. Cd. with £2 0s. 0d costs.