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hand if such milk is to give a sufficient proportion of fatty constituents,
the child must, if fed on this separated milk, consume
a much larger quantity of the impoverished milk, far beyond its
power of digestion.
The fat in good new milk should be from 3 to 4 per cent. in
weight, but many of the condensed separated milks contain less
than 1 per cent of fat.
Those having charge of young children are therefore recommended
to avoid the separated condensed milks, and to give the
children good new milk, both from a health point of view and as
a matter of real economy. If condensed milks are given, those
which contain the whole of the constituents of the milk, as the
best do, should be used.
All condensed milk should be made ready for use as food by
boiling water, in order to destroy any disease germs present.
The conclusion is, to beware when feeding young children,
of the numerous condensed skimmed or separated milks which
give little or no nourishment, but on the contrary more or less
starve the infant.
Table xvii shews the sanitary work of the Public Health
Department for the last seven years. The total number of
sanitary operations during 1898 was 72,782. These were more
numerous than in 1897, owing to the inspectorial staff being
increased.
The total number of house inspections during the year 1897
was forty-seven thousand six hundred and thirty. It must
not be imagined that this is identical with the number of separate
houses inspected, as many in a bad and insanitary condition
required re-inspection on many occasions. The number of
intimations served under sec. 3 of the Public Health (London)