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a very good skim milk, and the third, No. 59, was
adulterated, and a conviction obtained at the Lambeth
Police Court.
In conclusion I may be permitted to observe, that
my Report would not indicate that there is no
necessity for an Adulteration Act.
Christmas, 1875.
Since my last Report, the new Adulteration Act
has come into force, and every kind of food and
drink is now within the province of Public Analysts.
It will no longer be said that milks alone engage
the attention of Chemists appointed under the Act,
as this, my first Report, will prove. Alcoholic drinks
will, amongst other things, meet with the attention
they deserve.
In the last Quarter, I have had twenty-five
articles submitted to me for analysis; but, as I have
only finished twenty-one of these, it will be as well to
say that I have analyzed twenty-one samples.
The Milks, six in number, have passed the
ordeal of analytical examination, but not without the