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Analyses of Food and Drugs. 



Regulations, if Local Authorities would be good enough to forward a copy of their 

 existing Regulations to the Secretary of the Railway Clearing House, 123, Seymour 

 Street, Euston Square, London, N.W., with the view to their notification to the 

 several Railway Companies. 



"I am to add that it is not intended that the Order or this letter should apply 

 to Regulations which merely prohibit or regulate movement out of a shed, field, 

 or farm, but only to Regulations which apply to the whole of the district of a 

 Local Authority, or to any part thereof, in which there is a railway station. 



" I am, Sir, 



"Your obedient servant, 

 "(Signed.) T. II. Elliott, Secretary." 



Analyses under the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts. 



According to the Annual Report of the Local Government 

 Board for 1901-2 [Cd. 1,231], the total number of analyses- 

 under the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts in England and Wales 

 in 1 90 1 was 67,841, as compared with 62,858 in the previous 

 year. This advance was chiefly due to a further increase in 

 the number of samples of milk examined, which reached a 

 total of 26,143 in 1901, or 2,920 in excess of the figures for 

 1900. Of the number of samples of milk analysed, 2,938, or 

 1 1 '2 per cent., were found to be adulterated, as compared with 

 io - 8 per cent, in 1900, which itself was above the average for 

 the preceding six years. Legal proceedings were instituted in 

 respect of 1,839 of the samples reported against and 1,527 

 convictions were obtained. The penalties amounted in the 

 aggregate to .£3,208 lis. 1 id., and included 221 fines of £$ and 

 upwards, 9 being of £20 each. 



The number of samples of butter tested, which had shown- 

 a reduction of 104 in 19c o, amounted to 11,938 in 1901, 

 or 1,564 more than the total recorded for 1900. Adverse- 

 reports were made in 1,224 cases, or 10*3 per cent., of 

 the samples examined, as compared with 7*8 per cent, in the 

 previous year, and prosecutions were undertaken in respect of 

 734 samples. In 150 cases, however, the proceedings were 

 either dismissed or withdrawn, or costs only were inflicted, the- 

 greater proportion of the 150 being in respect of samples 0% 



