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Analysts' Annual Report.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors of the
Metropolitan Borough of Wandsworth.
Mr. Mayor, Madam and Gentlemen,
In presenting this our last annual report on work performed
by us under the, now repealed, Sale of Food and Drugs
Acts it gives us much pleasure to be able, once again, to congratulate
your Borough on rhe purity of its food supply, cases
of serious adulteration having only been met with on rare
occasions during the year under review.
It is especially gratifying to note that that verv important
food, Milk, is being sold in the Borough at an average composition
well above that required by the Law and that less than
3 per cent, of the samples submitted for analysis were found to
be below the legal standard whilst the majority of these so
returned proved to be only slightly below that standard.
A large and varied number of samples have been submitted
by your Food Inspector with a view to ascertaining whether
the various Regulations respecting the addition of preservatives
to food and drink which have come into force during the year
were being complied with, and here again we have much pleasure
in being able to draw attention to the fact that none of these
samples, with the exception of a few Butters, taken early in the
year, was found to have contravened these Regulations.
As a matter of fact, many of the samples of Sausages
labelled and submitted as "preserved" proved, on analysis,
to be quite free from such, excepting Common Salt Spice.
The following statement shows the nature of the samples
submitted and the result of analysis, the details of Drugs and
"Other Articles" being given below:—