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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

St Giles (Camberwell) 1874

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Camberwell]

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Table: As a caution, and exhibiting shameful adulteration, I subjoin No. 154:—

As a caution, and exhibiting shameful adulteration, I subjoin No. 154:—

Sp.gr., 1.025.Total solids, 7.87 percent.
Water92.13
Fat2.l6
Solids* not fat571
ioo'oo
*Ash0.42
Salt in Ash0.10
Here we have,
Of milk65.5
Of water34.5
100.0

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In the case of milk, the necessity for a duplicate
analysis in a suspicious case is the more imperative,
because it is often very difficult to estimate the fat
after forty-eight hours. One hold, the Defendant
always possesses over the Prosecution. The water
in any subsequent analysis should always appear
higher than in the Public Analyst's analysis, the ash
remaining the same. As an illustration of a Milk