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is a very close correspondence in the results of analysis of informal
samples and of those taken under the provisions of the Acts.

Of the formal samples taken the bulk were of milk, viz., whole
milk 726, separated 15.
Of the 726 whole milk samples, 36, or 4.9 per cent. were certified
as adulterated; 5, or 33 per cent. of the separated milk samples were
certified to contain extraneous water.
Milk sampling was carried out on 19 Sundays during the year,
and 95 samples were purchased for analysis on these occasions.
Samples of milk in course of delivery to the wholesale firms or
to retailers to the number of 106 were taken during the year. The
bulk of these samples were taken at Clapham Junction and South
Lambeth railway stations.
Samples of milk to the number of 78 were taken in course of
delivery to public elementary schools, hospitals, &c., in the Borough.
Proceedings were taken with regard to adulteration in 28
instances (fat abstracted 12, extraneous water 13, separated milk 3),
particulars relating to which will be found set out in the summarised
tables on pages 60-1 Warranty as a defence was pleaded in 6 cases,
and in 5 was successful.
Sausages and Preserved Meats, &c.
Twenty samples of sausages and 24 of preserved meats, &c.,
were taken during 1922 under the provisions of the Sale of Food and
Drugs Acts ; 18 of the sausages and 2 of the preserved meats, &c.