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Two Lards of excellent quality have been examined; also two
Butters, one of which was adulterated.
As I thought it advisable to look into tinned articles, I have
taken this quarter two Potted Meats and two Extracts of Meat.
Both the potted ham and the potted bloater-paste were of excellent
quality. The bloater-paste was colored with a little oxide of iron,
as the public will have it so. There is no adulteration, as the fact
is stated upon the label, and is confirmed by analysis. It seems
that the attempt to 6ell the bloater-paste without the coloring
matter has failed, and as the appearance of the paste without the
color is not so agreeable to the eye, the color added is the least
objectionable.
Both of the meat extracts are good. Number 51 is the better
of the two. They are excellent stimulants, and best adapted for
admixture with weak beef-tea. In households where soups are a
common feature of the dinner-table, the introduction of such
extracts would be a real economy. They contain no albumen, and
this should be supplied, when necessary, by fresh meat.
A Lime Juice, Number 70, was of very agreeable character.
The analysis of two Drugs, called White Precipitate, concludes my
list. One of them, No. 59, was perfect in composition; the other,
No. 60, varied from the theoretical standard. As no fixed standard
is given in the Pharmacopoeia, I, of course, took no notice of the
discrepancy.
All the certificates are in the hands of your Inspector, whom I
have found intelligent, active, and willing.
As usual, I have received every assistance and advice from your
Medical Officer.
Dee. 19 th, 1882.
I have to present my usual Quarterly Report, and am sorry that
it is not favorable as regards milk.
The number of Milks analysed, eleven, must be considered very
small for so poor a district as is represented by a portion of the
St. Saviour's District Board, and yet the amount of adulteration is
very high. We have five milks with respectively 10, 13, 10,
22, and 32 per cent. of added water. Another milk had been
doctored by the addition of carbonate of soda to the extent of 12 6
grains per gallon, and obviously with the intent of using stale
milk, but as the milk could not be considered watered, and the
addition has been recommended by some in order to make it keep
better, no action could be taken. On a former occasion the same