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39
FOOD AND DRUGS.
I am obliged to the County Council (who are the authority for
administering the provisions of the Sale of Food and Drugs Act, 1875),
for the following information:—
Samples
Name of Article. Taken. Found
Adulterated.
Milk 373 18
Milk, separated 11 —
Milk, condensed 3 —
Butter 7 —
Cream 6 4
Black Pudding 1 —
Coffee 3 —
Olive Oil 1 —
Prescription 7 2
Rice 1 —
Salicylate of Soda 1 —
Sponge Cake 2 —
Sugar 1 —
Sugar of Lead 1 —
Syrup of Iodide of Iron 1
419 24
Number of Prosecutions 9
Number of Convictions 7
Fines and Costs imposed £12 6s. 6d.
The figures given for adulterated samples include some adulterated
informal samples, in respect of which no proceedings could be taken.
DISINFECTION AND DISINFESTATION.
Infected rooms are sprayed with formalin when the infected patient
is removed to hospital or has recovered from the disease. The clothing
is at the same time disinfected in a Washington Lyons Disinfector.