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Local Taxation Returns {England). The Annual Local 

 Taxation Returns. Part LLL. 1894-95. [PLC. — 367-1."] 

 Price 4s. gia 7 . 



This volume of the local taxation returns for the financial 

 year 1894-95 contains abstracts of the returns made by town 

 councils acting as municipal and urban sanitary authorities, 

 and as urban district councils, by local boards and improve- 

 ment commissioners (now urban district councils), joint boards, 

 rural sanitary authorities and rural district councils, parish 

 councils and parish meetings, port sanitary authorities, burial 

 boards, commissioners of baths and washhouses, conservators 

 of commons and trustees of certain open spaces, commis- 

 sioners of free public libraries, lighting and watching inspec- 

 tors, commissioners of markets and fairs, ard bridge and ferry 

 trustees. 



The Twenty-sixth Annual Report of the Local Government 

 Board, 1896-97. [C. — 8583.] Price 4s. nd. 



This publication contains, among much other information, 

 details of the result of analyses made during the year under 

 the provisions of the Sale of Food and Drugs Act, 1875. 



As regards dairy products, it is shown that out of 45,555 

 samples analysed in 1896, as many as 18,795 were of milk, 

 and that of this number 2,091, or in per cent., were reported 

 to be adulterated. This proportion is the same as that for 

 the previous year, but is only a little more than half the 

 proportion shown in the returns for the five years 1877-81". 

 It is held to be more than probable that this does not repre- 

 sent the full extent of milk adulteration in England, 

 inasmuch as public analysts adopt a very low standard so 

 that injustice may not be inflicted upon vendors of poor 

 but genuine, milk. 



In London the high rate of 177 per cent, of adulteration 

 obtained in 1896-7, as against 9*1 per cent, for the rest of 

 the country. Among the 32 great towns included in the 

 Registrar-General's Weekly Returns, only seven, namely, 

 Birmingham, Nottingham, Portsmouth, Sunderland, Norwich, 

 Swansea, and Wolverhampton had a percentage of milk 



