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ANNUAL REPORT OF THE ANALYST
APPOINTED UNDER THE SALE OF FOOD AND DRUGS ACTS.
TO THE BOARD OF WORKS FOR THE ST. GILES
DISTRICT.
Gentlemen,
During the year ending on the 31st of last March,
I received from your Inspector, Mr. Hoyle, 292 samples
for analysis, consisting of bread, butter, lard, flour, cheese,
milk, tea, coffee, coffee substitute, sugar, pickles, mustard,
pepper, vinegar, brandy, rum, gin, sweets, preserved green
peas, arrowroot, sago, castor oil, cod liver oil, iodide of
potassium, and hydrate of chloral. Of these samples sixteen
were found to be adulterated; namely, ten of milk,
three of butter, one of mustard, one of coffee, and one of
gin. The proportion of adulterated articles, therefore, has
amounted to 5.4 per cent. of the whole; but it will be seen
that the principal part of the adulterations have been in
the article of milk.
I have the honour to be,
Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
T. REDWOOD.
17, Bloomsbury Square,
1st August, 1882.