[Report 1929] / Medical Officer of Health, Darlington County Borough.

  • Darlington (England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1929
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Credit: [Report 1929] / Medical Officer of Health, Darlington County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SF.CTIOX VI. ft CMEfVgiGAL Am BACTERIOLOGICAL WORK. Chemical examination of water supplies, milk sam])les, food and drugs are carried out by agreement with Mr. Cyril I J. H. Stock, appointed as ])art-time Analyst, who has kindly written ; the following report :— ANNUAL REPORT OF TUK ROROUGH ANALYST. 1. During the year ended the .‘Rst December, 1929, 21 1 ; samples of Food have been sid)mitted for analysis and report under , the ])rovisions of the Food and Drugs (Adulteration) Act, 1928, I and the various Regulations which the Minister of Health is ! empowered to make. 2. I have eertihed 171 samples to be of genuine (juality and 1 21 sam})les to be adulterated or below standard, while 11 samples i of iMilk, taken in course of delivery as reference sanij)les, and 8 I samj)les ol Milk taken on ai)peal to the cow, have also l)een reported i U])on. 8. Excluding reference and a))|)cal samples, the |)erecntage of adulteration for the year was 12.80 as compared with 11.91 for the 12 months ended the 81st Deeem})er, 1928. j L During the ordinary course of insi)eetion 127 sami)les of I I\Iilk were taken ol which 2t were lound to be adulterated oi’ < below standard, giving a figure of 18.90 for the j)ercentagc of « adulteration lor Milk for the period under re\'iew. In this figure are included all samples cither adulterated or below standard, l)ut ' reference and a))pcai sam})les arc not included. The figure for the pre\dous year was 21.05 per cent. Of the 2 1 samples reported against 5 were deficient in both Non-latt}^ Solids and in Fat, 10 were deficient in Non-fatty Solids only and 9 were deficient in Fat.