London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
View report page
Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Mile End 1884
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hamlet of Mile End Old Town]
This page requires JavaScript
5
promote the general sanitary condition and consequent public health
and material prosperity of the Hamlet.
Appended is the Report of your Sanitary Inspector showing the
very large amount of practical and valuable work, essential to the
comfort and health of the public, so diligently carried out in his
department.
I remain, Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
MATTHEW CORNER, M.D.
ADULTERATION OF FOOD AND DRUGS ACT.
During the year ending March, 1885, I have received from your Inspector under the Acts, the following samples for analysis, viz.:
| Flour | 9 |
| Bread | 9 |
| Cocoa | 7 |
| Coffee | 7 |
| Milk | 10 |
| 42 |
All the above were subjected to careful chemical and microscopic
examination, and proved to be genuine, hence the result is highly
satisfactory both to the general public and to the Vestry by whom it is
represented, and it must be also equally gratifying to the tradesmen of
the district as showing that the public need not go farther afield to expend
their money in procuring the necessaries of life in the purest condition.
Samples of all the articles are preserved at the Vestry, and may be
examined in confirmation of correctness of analyses.
The general public seem, as hitherto, indifferent to the Act, and do
not submit samples for analysis, evidently relying upon the supervision
of the local authority.
M. CORNER, M.D.,
Analyst.