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REPORT UPON ARTICLES ANALYSED
DURING THE YEAE 1876,
MADE TO THE
Vestry of St. James's, Westminster,
BY
JAMES EDMUNDS, M.D., M.R.C.P., M.R.C.S., F.C.S., &c.
Medical Officer of Health and Public Analyst for St. James's,
Westminster.
Rev. Sir and Gentlemen,
I have the honour to submit the following
particulars of sixty-nine Articles Analysed during
the year 1876, under the provisions of the “Sale
of Food and Drugs Act, 1875.”
Feb. 19. 1.—Bread. Contained of alumina a mere trace.
Feb. 19. 2.—Bread. Contained alumina in very small
quantity, equal to 6 grains of potash alum per quartern
loaf.
Feb. 19. -3.— Bread. Contained alumina in very small
quantity, equal to 3.5 grs. of potash alum in the quartern
loaf.
Feb. 19. 4.—Bread. Contained alumina in very small
quantity, equal to 2.8 grs. of potash alum in the quartern
loaf.
Feb. 19. 5.—Bread. Contained alumina in small quantity,
equal to 5.6 grs. of potash alum in the quartern loaf.
Feb. 19. 6.—Bread. Contained alumina in very small
quantity, equal to 2.45 grs. of potash alum in the
quartern loaf.