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Sale of Food and Drugs Act, 1875.
Report of the Public Analyst appointed for the Parish of Rotherhithe, upon the
Articles Analysed bv him under the above Act, during the quarter ending the 31st
March, 1881.'
Article Submitted
for Ananlysis.
By whom Submitted
Result of Ananlysis.
The sum
paid in respect
of the
Analysis.
Observations.
Bread
...
Local Authoritv
Genuine
10/6
ditto
ditto
All animal fat
10/6
ditto
ditto
ditto
10/6
Milk
ditto
Genuine
10/6
ditto
ditto
ditto
10/6
ditto
ditto
ditto
10/6
Total number of samples Analvsed during the quarter, Six.
(Signed) JOHN MUTER,
Date, 3rd January, 1881. Public Analyst.
One Tradesman was summoned to the Greenwich Police Court for selling Milk
adulterated with water and fined 40/- and 2/- costs
In January the Inspector of Food, &c. seized five Turkeys as being unfit for Food,
obtained a Magistrate's order to destroy them, and against the Tradesman for exposing
such articles of food for sale, and at the hearing of the summons the Magistrate inflicted
a penalty of £5 and 2/ costs.
Financial.
£6,150 6s. Od. has been paid off the Loan borrowed in 1868, of Mr. Robert
Lawrence for paving the carriageway Union-road and part of the Deptford Lower-road,
leaving £3,311 14s. to be repaid by equal instalments within a period of seven years,
with interest at £5 per cent, per annum.
The Loan of £1,500 for paving works borrowed of Mr. Edward Talbot still continues,
this Loan being repayable in 15 years from the year 1870; the Vestry have set
aside £100 yearly to form a sinking fund to pay the same off at the expiration of the
•aid term ; the sum at present standing to such sinking fund account being £1,100.
£4,500 has been paid off the Loan of £10,000 borrowed in the year 1872 of the
Eagle Insurance Company, for paving the carriageway Dentford Lower-road, from the
8urrey Commercial Dock entrance to the "Red Lion" P.H., leaving £5,500 to be
repaid by equal annual instalments within a period of 11 years, with interest at £5 per
cent, per annum.