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the warranty. Visits are also paid to the manufacturers' premises
for samples for analysis, and documents and registers are inspected
with the object of checking- the warranties which are passed on to
the merchant and retailer.
Details of samples taken during the year are shown in
Table XXIV.
REPORT OF THE PUBLIC ANALYST FOR 1937
by
Albert E. Parkes, f.i.c., f.c.s.
During the year 1937, the number of samples which were
examined under the Food and Drugs (Adulteration) Act was
1,176. These were all submitted by the medical officer of health,
and no samples were submitted by the public. Of these samples,
30 were found to be adulterated. The adulteration was at the
rate of 2.55 per cent, of samples submitted as compared with 3.38
per cent, for the whole of England and Wales in 1936.
The adulteration of the samples submitted during the past
ten years is shown in Table XXV.