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or temporarily cut off. In one house, on Shooters' Hill, the
insufficiency was due to the storage tank provided not being
sufficiently large, the water supply being intermittent.
Food and Drugs Act.
4. 517 samples were submitted to the Public Analyst, and 38,
or 7'4 per cent., were found to be adulterated, compared with 5.5,
4.1, 5.7 and .'4 in the four preceding years.
5. Proceedings were taken in 38 cases; 2 were dismissed on
proof of warranty; 4 were with drawn, and a conviction was obtained
in 29. (These figures refer to proceedings actually taken
during the year, and consequently do not correspond with the
figures in the preceding paragraph.)
6. A total of £66 10s. was imposed in fines, and £27 9s. 6d.
in costs.
7. 403 of the samples were milk (including 3 separated, 1
skimmed and 2 condensed), and 26 of these, or 6.5 per cent.,
were adulterated, compared with 4.8, 6.1 and 1.3 in the three
preceding years.
100 Samples were bought as butter, and 12 were found to be
adulterated.
Table XVIII. shews the other 14 articles analysed, all of which
were found genuine.
8. Of the 29 adulterated milk samples for which proceedings
were undertaken, 4 were for abstraction of fat, 17 for addition of
water, and 7 for addition of a preservative, viz., Formalin.
One sample was adultered with 31 per cent. of water and one
had 33 per cent. fat abstracted; these were the most serious
adulterations and the fine inflicted was £3 in each case.