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6. A total of £25 Os. Od. was imposed in fines, and £8 2s.
in costs.
7. 357 of the samples were fresh milk, and three separated
milk. Six of these, or 1.7 per cent, were adulterated, compared
with 6.1, 9.3, 6.5, 8.7, and 4.8, in the five preceding years.
83 samples were bought as butter, and four were found to be
adulterated.
Table XVIII. shews the other articles analysed. Two
samples of coffee and one of camphorated oil were adulterated ;
the remainder were genuine.
8. Of the 3 adulterated milk samples for which proceedings
were taken, 2 were for abstraction of fat, and 1 for addition of
water.
9. Of the 346 milk samples, 105 were taken on Sunday or
Bank holidays; none of these were found adulterated. In
1905, 11 per cent, of samples taken on Sunday were found
adulterated ; in 1906, 6 3 per cent.; and in 1907, 2 5 per cent.
10. A record is now kept of all analyses of milk made by
the Public Analyst. The average percentage of fat in all
unadulterated samples taken last year was the same as in 1907,
viz., 3.6, and of non-fatty solids 8.8. From 9 to 18 samples
were taken in 1907 of the milk supplied by each of six large
retailers; the average of unadulterated samples for each firm
only varied from 3.5 to 3.7 per cent, of fat. and from 8.7 to 8.9
non-fatty solids.
Sampling under the Food and Drugs Acts. On the 1st May
I reported as follows :—