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Mile End 1890

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hamlet of Mile End Old Town]

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23 JULY, 1890. 125
(6) That such proceedings be taken in the matter of the notices
served upon the owners and occupiers of underground rooms
at 41, 43, and 47, Plumbers Row, used as sleeping apartments
as your Clerk may advise.
(7) That your Clerk submitted the Quarterly Report of your
Analyst, as follows:
Sale of Food and Drugs' Act, 1875.
Report of the Public Analyst appointed for the Hamlet
of Mile End Old Town, upon the articles analysed by
him under the above Act, during the quarter ending the
25th June, 1890.
Milk 712 Genuine.
„ 713 „
„ 4 „
„ 715 „
„ 716 Is admixed with about fourteen
per cent. of added water.
„ 717 Genuine.
„ 718 „
„ 719 „
„ 720 „
„ 721 „
„ 722 „
„ 723 „
„ 724 „
Coffee 725 „
Cocoa 726 „
Coffee 727 „
Cocoa 728 Is a mixture of starch, sugar
and cocoa. It is prepared
cocoa.
Coffee 729 Genuine.
Pepper 730 „
Coffee 731 „
Pepper 732 Is admixed with about ten per
cent. of foreign starch derived
from ginger.
Bread 733 Genuine.
Flour 734 „
Bread 735 „
Flour 736 „
Milk 737 Is a very poor milk.
„ 738 Genuine.
„ 739 Is admixed with about fifteen
per cent. of added water.
„ 740 Genuine.
Pepper 741 „
Total number of samples analysed
(Signed) R.H. HARLAND
Public Analyst.
8th July, 1890.