[Report 1950] / Medical Officer of Health, Staffordshire County Council.

  • Staffordshire (England). County Council.
Date:
1950
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Credit: [Report 1950] / Medical Officer of Health, Staffordshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Again it is a pleasure to record the drop m the rate of adulteration for the year which, at 5.1 per cent., was the lowest yet known. There was a slight increase in the figure for milk adulteration, but a notable decrease in that for other foods and drugs. It will, no doubt, be observed that sausages provide the largest number of adulterated foods other than milk. It must be pointed out, however, that, when compared with previous years, the proportion of the sausage samples adulterated has greatly decreased—13 out of 132 samples in 1950 as compared with 14 out of 54 samples in 1949. The nature of their adulteration also changed, since a deficiency in meat occurred less frequently than offences against the Preservatives Regulations. TABLE I. The total number of samples analysed was as follows :— For County Council : Food and Drugs Act, 1938 {a) Chief Inspector’s Samples .. 4,012 „ „ „ „ (i) other Samples .. 255 “Appeal to Cow ” Samples . 224 Fertilisers and Feeding Stuffs Act, 1926 130 Drinking Waters .. .. 541 Unclassified Waters 3 Swimming Bath and Pool Waters 22 River Waters, Full Analyses 110 Sewage and Sewage Effluents, Full Analyses .. 139 Trade Waste ; Crude Sewage ; and Sludge .. 19 Coroners’ and Pathological Specimens 9 Atmospheric Pollution .. 569 Miscellaneous Samples 92 6,125 For Stoke-on-Trent : Food and Drugs Act, 1938 [a] Chief Inspector’s Samples .. 965 „ „ „ [b) Other Samples • • 8 “ Appeal to Cow ” Samples • * 1 Fertilisers and Feeding Stuffs Act, 1926 • • 9 Miscellaneous Samples * • 10 993 For Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme : Food and Drugs Act, 1938 [a) Chief Inspector’s Samples 169 „ ,, ,, (6) other Samples * • 2 “Appeal to Cow ” Samples • ♦ 5 Miscellaneous Samples • * 9 185