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PUBLIC ANALYST'S REPORT.
For the year ending Midsummer, 1892.
TO THE BOARD OF WORKS FOR THE ST. SAVIOUR'S
DISTRICT.
Gentlemen,
I beg to report that during the past year I have
analysed 127 samples of food, drink and drugs, and 4 samples
of water.
The former consisted of:—
No. of Samples.
Brandy 6
Butter 8
Coffee 13
Condensed Milk 1
Eucalyptus Oil l
Gin 14
Lard 2
Milk 56
Mustard 2
Pepper 5
Seidlitz Powders 2
Whiskey 17
127
All the Samples of Lard, Mustard and Pepper were genuine.
Brandy.—4 samples were genuine, and respectively 14¾,
18¼, 18½ and 23½ degrees under proof.
Two samples were diluted, being 28 and 29 degrees under
proof, respectively.
Butter.—Three samples were genuine, and five were
Margarine, i.e., mixtures of fats containing varying per centages
of butter, from practically none to 35 per cent.
Coffee—11 samples were genuine, 1 contained 35per cent,
of Chicory; 1 contained a mere trace of Chicory.
In the last case the Chicory was no doubt accidentally
introduced in grinding the Coffee, as the proportion too
trifling to have been purposely added.