Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
The annual report on vital and sanitary statistics, 1894
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as that accepted as the standard at Somerset House.
Fortunately for the purposes of this argument a single
sample was taken from a churn containing genuine milk,
and as before stated, was declared as such by the analyst.
The manager at the farm had accidentally provided a
standard by sending down in the van one churn containing
genuine milk with the 15 containing adulterated milk.
Taking this sample of genuine milk marked 7a on the
table as the standard of comparison, the analyst found in
the remaining samples adulteration to an extent ranging
from 7.5 to 21.5 per cent.
No.
Total.
Solids.
Fa.
Solids
not Fat.
Extraneous
Water.
Somerset
House'
Standard
11.50
3.00
8.50
none
4 A 10.76 3.00 7.76 8.7
5 „ 9.72 2.50 7.22 15.0
6,, 10.48 2.90 7.58 12.0
7 „ 12.00 2.90 9.10 none
8,, 10.42 3.10 7.32 14.0
9,, 10.62 3.30 7.32 14.0
10 „ 10.00 2.70 7.30 14.5
11 „ 10.24 2.60 7.64 10.0
12 „ 10.92 3.20 7.72 9.2
13 „ 9.50 2.40 7.10 16.5
14 „ 10.24 2.80 7.44 12.5
15 „ 11.18 2.90 8.28 2.6
16 „ 9.82 2.50 7.32 14.0
17 „ 1114 3.50 7.64 10.0
18 „ 9.30 1.40 7.90 7.0
19 „ 9.02 1.10 7.92 7.0
Average 10.27 2.67 7.60 10.6