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Westminster 1900
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster]
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Customs and Inland Revenue Act.
(Millbank Site.)
During the year I issued certificates under the above Act
that the following premises were provided with suitable
sanitary accommodation, viz. :—
Leighton-buildings.
Millais-buildings.
Romney-buildings.
3 and 4, Turner-buildings.
Sale of Food and Drugs Acts.
During the year 100 samples of food, &c., have been purchased for analysis. The following is a table of the samples taken, together with the fines and costs imposed in the cases where summary action was resorted to in respect of adulterations :—
| Articles Purchased. | No. of Samples. | Genuine. | Adulterated. | Result of summary proceedings. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fines. | Costs. | ||||||||
| s. | d. | s. | d. | ||||||
| Arrowroot | 4 | 4 | — | — | — | ||||
| Baking Powder | 6 | 6 | — | — | — | ||||
| Bread* | 1 | — | — | — | — | ||||
| Beer | 10 | 10 | — | — | — | ||||
| Butter | 20 | 18 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 |
| Cheese | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 6 |
| Cheese (Margarine) | 1 | — | — | — | — | ||||
| Cocoa | 3 | 3 | — | — | — | ||||
| Coffee | 4 | 3 | 1 | No action. | |||||
| Milk* | 30 | 25 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 6 | |
| Result of proceedings since the compilation of this report. | |||||||||
| Mustard | 4 | 4 | — | — | — | ||||
| Pepper | 1 | 1 | — | — | — | ||||
| Sweets* | 1 | — | — | — | |||||
| Treacle | 3 | 3 | — | — | — | ||||
| Vinegar | 5 | 5 | — | — | — | ||||
| Total | 100 | 89 | 8 | £4 | 10 | 0 | £2 | 12 | 0 |
* The samples of bread, sweets and margarine cheese, and one sample of milk were
not analysed.
† In consequence of certain circumstances, summary action was only taken in respect
of one of the adulterated samples.
In addition to the above samples, one each of butter and
milk was submitted for analysis by a ratepayer, and were
afterwards certified as being genuine.