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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
Mile End 1891
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hamlet of Mile End Old Town]
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16 8 APRIL, 1891.
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| Milk | 30c | Contains about 10 per cent less than the usual proportion of Cream, in other words about 10 per cent of Cream has been abstracted. |
| Coffee | 19l | Genuine. |
| Cocoa | 20l | |
| Coffee | 21l | „ |
| Cocoa | 22l | Mixture of Cocoa, Sugar, and Starch. It is prepared Cocoa. |
| Coffee | 23l | Genuine. |
| Mustard | 24l | |
| Milk | 25l | |
| 26l | ||
| 27l | ||
| 28l | ||
| 29l | Admixed with about 15 per cent. of added water. | |
| 30l | Genuine. | |
| 31l | Very poor Milk. | |
| 31c | Genuine. | |
| 32c | ||
| 33c | ||
| 34c | ||
| 35c | ||
| 32l | ||
| 33l | ||
| 34l | Admixed with about 25 per cent. of added water. | |
| 36c | Genuine. | |
| 37c | Very Poor Milk. | |
| 38c | Genuine. | |
| Pepper | 39c | |
| Coffee | 40c | |
| Bread | 35l | |
| Flour | 36l | |
| Bread | 37l | |
| Flour | 38l |
Total number of samples analysed during the Quarter
—40.
(Signed) R. H. HARLAND,
F.I.C., F.C.S.
Public Analyst.
10th March, 1891.
That from the Reports of your Inspectors under the
Adulteration Acts it appears—
(a) That the samples were purchased as follows: