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To feed babies on milk of this sort, in summer-time, is to
court disaster; though, doubtless, it is sometimes done.
A regulation should be made to compel all milk-sellers
to provide a muslin cover to prevent flies and coarser dirt
particles from obtaining access to the milk when exposed for
sale in an open vessel on the counter. This could easily be
done and would do a certain amount of good.
CONDENSED MILK.
No account of the milk supply of the district would be
complete without taking into consideration the question of
condensed milks. Of these, there are three groups sold,
according to Dr Hutchison on " Food and Dietetics,"
They are:—
(1). Unsweetened and condensed whole milk.
(2). Sweetened and condensed whole milk.
(3). Sweetened and condensed skim milk.
The quantity of group 1 sold in Ilford is so small as to
be practically nil. The chief reason, I believe, being the
difficulty in keeping it. Owing to the absence of sugar it
often goes wrong.
Group 2 contains what is ordinarily called the best
condensed milk. This contains, as a rule, rather more added
cane-sugar than solids in the milk.
An analysis of the better brands from Peariuain and
Moore's " Analysis of food and drugs," is here given :—