ALT Text reading: "In 1872, the last year the Act of 1860 remained unamended, the number of convictions for the sale of adulterated food was 67, and the amount of fines imposed was £306 10s. During the ten years that the first food adulteration Act was in force in Dublin, there were hundreds of convictions obtained under it, notwithstanding its defects. The articles found to be adulterated were- milk, butter, tea, coffee, cocoa, mustard, flour, bread, arrowroot, confections, sugar, rum and wine. The milk was nearly always adulterated, not only with warer, but occasionally, though rarely, with other substances, namely, sugar, starchy matter, and salt. The butter contained excessive quantities of water and salt. On one occasion a sample was examined which contained the pulp of swedish turnip; and on another occasion a roll of butter was found to contain a snowball at its core. On several"