[Report 1928] / Medical Officer of Health, Burton-upon-Trent County Borough.

  • Burton upon Trent (England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1928
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Credit: [Report 1928] / Medical Officer of Health, Burton-upon-Trent County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    - an addition forbidden by the Milk and Dairies (Anandment) Act, 1922, but there has been no instance of the presence of fjne. The outstanding feature for satisfaction is the low amount of water in butter. In 1928 it was yet lower than it has been in recent years, with an average of 13.45 per cent, of water. With the e.xcep- tion of one sample, which was on the limit of sixteen jx-r cent., the butter reflects great credit on the vender's. Tinned Cream, as usual, was poor and imported, and containc'^ only an average of 25.3 per cent, of fat or less than half (he amount usually got when the new article is bought. Jam was low-grade and averaged .only 69 per ci-nt. of soluble extract (sugar and the soluble part of fruit). Each of the three samjilcs was coloured with the same pink aniline dye, though one jam was strawberry and gooseberry, another plum, and the third blackcurrant. Doth samples of tea came from the same source, f)ne from the packet, the other from a tea canister, and with the comjrlaint that when the tea was mashed it tasted bitter and wcnild not take the milk. Both samples were identical in composition, and both were normal and genuine. Neither gave a bitter extract, and in each ca.se the infu.sions mixed with milk in an even manner. The features mentioned (Iritter taste and not taking the milk) might ha\’e arisen in one of two wa3’s (a) The milk might have been near the point of turning sour when an\’ hot liquid such as tea would cause it tf) sejjarate in masses and warmth tends to enhance the bitter tast(‘ often luescnt in souring inilk. (b) Alternati\el\’ .some- thing might have been jmt in the teapot to clean it and forgotten ; differi'iit things are used for this purpose, such as washing soda aiul e^■en s])irits of salts. I'our a])j)les were akso analysed to ascertain if illness that followed the eating of them bj’ the members of a family originau-d frcun any foreign chemical substance. It was found that this was not the case. Two samides of drugs were analN’scd each of Malt ICxtract and Cod l.i\’er Oil.- This mixtinx- is not among the oilicial ])n-jxirations of the British PharmacoiKeia, and the jwnjtortions of the two in-
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