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" Every purveyor of milk, or person selling- milk
by retail, shnll cause every vessel containing
milk for sale to be kept properly covered or to
be otherwise sufficiently protected from contamination
by dust or flies."
(e) Do all in their power to ensure proper cleanliness in
all that pertains to the dairy, cowsheds, and cows ;
to encourage in every possible way proper aud
sufficient cooling of the milk below 50 degrees
Fahrenheit.
(f) Support any effort made to obtain compulsory
powers to compel registration of farmers in districts
to which they supply milk.
MUNICIPAL MILK DEPOTS.
As Municipal Milk Depots have been discussed to a
great extent recently, a brief description may be of interest.
The first one to be established in this country was at St.
Helens, in 1899, aud since that time, depots have been
started at Ashton, Liverpool, Battersea, and other places.
In starting a depot the first thing is to ensure a supply
of milk from a farm where the cows are not tuberculous,
where the milking is conducted under cleanly conditions,
cooled to 40 degrees Fahrenheit, and sent in sealed cans to
the depot. It is then modified by the addition of water and
cream in varying proportions according to the age of the
baby it is to be provided for.
The following table gives the proportions whioh are
taken from Dr. McCi.kary's book on "Infants' Milk
Depots."