[Report 1914] / Medical Officer of Health, Bury St Edmunds Borough.

  • Bury St. Edmunds (England). Borough Council. no2007054786.
Date:
1914
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Credit: [Report 1914] / Medical Officer of Health, Bury St Edmunds Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE SALE OE FOOD AND DKUCiS ACTS AND THE PUBLIC HEALTH (MILK AND CKEAM) REGULATIONS. Katiire of Sample. Number Examined. Number Adulteiated. Extent of Adulteration and Action taken. Milk in I Deficiency in fatty solids of 19 per cent. Fined i and 6/6 costs. Milk, Condensed .. I — Cream I — Butter lO I 40 per cent, foreign fat. Fined and 6/6 costs. Camphorated Oil.. I — White Pepper 2 — Baking Powder . . 3 — I.ard I — Cocoa I — Cocoa Essence I — 32 -2 ANALYSIS OF WATER (WELLS). I ^34 Grains per Gallon. Grains per Gallon. Grains per Gallon. Grains per Gallon. Free Ammonia Trace Nil Trace .0007 Albuminoid Ammonia .0007 Nil .0037 .0059 Chlorine 13 I'S 2.6 2.7 Nitrogen as Nitrates •364 •532 00 -2.01 Nitrites Nil Nil Trace Trace Appearance .. Slightly opal- escent with small rusty sediment of iron oxide. Clear Slightly Opalescent. Slight Deposit of chalk with a few Ani- malculae. Samples numbers 3 and 4 were both taken from the same well. The owner was interviewed by the Sanitary Tnspector, and as a result the well is abolished and the town water supply laid on at the time of writing, F. E. R.