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dairy), 3 stablemen, 2 pasteurisers and dairymen, 2 cowmen,
4 office staff, 3 helpers in the shop, and I cook
and 1 housemaid (attending upon the proprietors). For
the purposes of this Report, the regular distributors are
designated bv their numbers, viz., 1 to 22, and the 3
"odd" men by their initials, viz., "odd" men E.F., W.K.
and S.J.A. respectively. The distribution of the miik
was by means of churns carried in (a) hand prams or
perambulators, and (b) horse carts—regular distributors
Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 9, 11, 13, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20,
21 using the former, and regular distributors Nos. 5, 6,
7, 8. 10, 12, 14 and 22, and "odd" man S.J.A. the latter.
There were, also, the usual bottles and cans in use. The
ordinary rounds are made in the mornings and afternoons,
and the so-called "pudding" rounds between 10
and II a.m. The ordinary rounds do not tally with the
pudding ' rounds, some distributors taking the "pudding
rounds in an area or areas (or parts thereof) outside
their ordinary rounds, whilst the "odd" man, S.J.A., had
a special "pudding" round in parts of Beckenham,
Lewisham, Camberwell and Peng* (but not in Croydon,
nor in Lambeth) and the other "odd" men assisted the
regular distributors as follow :—
" Odd " Men. Distributors Assisted.
Ordinary Rounds. "Pudding "Rounds.
Morning. Afiernoon.
E.F. No. 4 No. 9 "Odd" Man S.J A.
W.K. — — No.12.
*N.B. — "Odd " man S.J.A., who had a spccial "pudding" round
of his own, was assisted by "odd" man E.F.
In addition, as occasion required, "odd" man E.F.
was accustomed to take butter or milk into any district,
using for that purpose a bicycle.
These complicated arrangements in connection with
the different rounds or distribution areas made the
investigations into the cause or causes of the outbreak
all the more difficult.
The average amount of milk dealt 'with daily is
large—3,047 quarts, or 762 gallons, being distributed to
2,529 h ouses. representing a milk population of not less
than 10,000 individual consumers of milk (in greater or
lesser amounts).