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FOOD ANALYSIS.
SALE OF FOOD AND DRUGS' ACT, 1875.
REPORT UPON ARTICLES ANALYSED
DURING THE YEAR 1883,
MADE TO THE
vestry of st james's westminster,
BY
JAS. EDMUNDS, M.D., M.R.C.P. Lond., F.R.M.S., F.C.S.,
Medical Officer of Health and Public Analyst for St. James's, Westminster.
Rev. Sir and Gentlemen,
During the year 1883, under the provisions of the Sale
of .Food and Drugs' Act, 1875, 66 samples were examined, all being
procured for examination by the Vestry Officers.
In January of the year 1883, peremptory warnings were sent
to several milk vendors in the Parish as to the quality of the milk
which they were found to be selling. Notices also were sent out
with regard to the sale of coffee, cocoa, and mustard, which, when
in any way mixed, the law required to be labelled "sold as a mixture,"
or made the vendors liable to prosecution under the adulteration
acts. In the first quarter of the year 1883, it was found,
on analysis of the specimens procured, that these warnings had not
been taken seriously, and thereupon prosecutions were ordered by
the Vestry.
In the course of the year 1883. 46 specimens of milk have been
examined. During the first quarter, out of 21 specimens, 1 was