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PUBLIC ANALYST'S REPORT.
To the Board of Works for the St. Saviour's District.
Gentlemen,
During the year ending June 24th, 1898, your Inspectors
have submitted for analysis 154 samples of Food and Drink.
They consisted of:—
No. of Samples.
Brandy 1
Butter 45
Cocoa 1
Coffee 4
Gin 2
Mustard 10
Milk 60
Olive Oil 4
Pepper 11
Whisky 16
Total 154
Brandy.—The one sample received was genuine and of
alcoholic strength 23° under proof.
Butter.—Forty-five samples in all were analysed. Of
these forty-four were genuine, but five of the forty-four were of
poor quality. They were foreign butters and came just within
the limits of a genuine butter. One sample consisted entirely
of Margarine. A fair proportion of the butters were taken
from wholesale premises as imported.
Coffee.—Out of four samples three were genuine, and one
contained a mere trace of chicory—probably an accidental
admixture introduced in grinding the coffee berries in a mill in
which chicory had been previously ground.
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