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Where meat is sold on Saturday nights for a few pence per
pound, it does not [follow that it is at the time of sale unfit for
human food, but is in such condition that decomposition will
speedily follow if kept longer without being cooked, most of it
being foreign meat which has been kept in refrigerators.
Under the provisions of the Food and Drugs Act, three
hundred samples have been taken annually and submitted to the
Analyst. The Vestry has decided that, in future, five hundred
samples shall be taken each year.
Skimmed or The public attention has been directed to the
Separated
Milk. importance of milk being used in its entirety, more
especially in the case of infants brought up wholly or
in part, whether the milk was given as derived from the cow or
as condensed milk, the abstraction of the most important element,
the fat, being most prejudicial as tending to practically starve
the child. A warning to the public of these dangers of using
such impoverished milk is here given : —
CONDENSED, SKIMMED OR SEPARATED MILK.
The Vestry of the parish of St. Mary, Battersea, as advised
by the Medical Officer of Health, desire to call the attention of
parents or persons having charge of young children to the fact
that Milk consists, broadly speaking, of three constituents: firstly,
Fat, as in cream or butter; secondly, Cheese, as casein or curds;
thirdly, Whey, chiefly water, salts, etc.
The abstraction of the major part of the fat in separated or
skimmed milk takes away the most important constituents as far
as nourishment is concerned, and a young child fed wholly or
principally on such impoverished milk is under-nourished to the
extent to which the abstraction of fat has gone. On the other