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In the record of the prosecutions it will be noticed that the
method of milk adulteration most in favour was that of
removing the cream, and that one defendant was fined no less
than six times for this offence. This man, who traded as the
Burleigh Park Dairy Company, avowedly sold separated or
skimmed milk, and professed to label his barrows with the
words " separated milk," and to give explicit instructions to
his men to sell the milk as separated milk; but, as a rule, the
label was removed, and the men cried "pure new milk," so
that the customers always imagined they were getting genuine
milk.
The practice of removing the cream is, if anything, a more
pernicious form of sophistication than the addition of water,
for cows' milk is the sole food of many children ; and as an
infant requires three-quarters of the fat required by a man
in ordinary work the effect of removing the greater portion
of this most essential constituent is the starvation of any
unfortunate child fed on it.
It is gratifying to know that the fines inflicted had a
deterrent effect, and that the Burleigh Park Dairy Company
have discontinued, at any rate for the present, their business
in Fulham.