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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.
17, Bloomsbury Square,
London, W.C.
July 1st, 1884.
Gentlemen,
During the year ending on the 31st of March last,
I received from your Inspector, Mr. J. Hoyle, 239 samples
for analysis, consisting of milk, condensed milk, butter,
coffee, pepper, mustard, jams, pickles, flour, bread, green
peas, confectionery, sausages, tinned meats, rum, gin,
biscuits, vinegar, cheese, sulphate of quinine, quinine mixture,
sweet spirits of nitre, precipitated sulphur, cream of
tartar, iodide of potassium, powdered rhubarb, and citric
acid. Of these samples, I found thirty to be adulterated;
namely, twelve of milk, ten of butter, and eight of coffee.
The proportion of adulterated articles, therefore, has
amounted to 12.56 per cent. of the whole.
I have the honour to be,
Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
T. REDWOOD.