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fined the defendant in the mitigated penalty of
5s. and 2s. costs.
A dining-room proprietor was fined £3 and
2s. costs for selling Milk containing 11 per cent.
of added water.
Note by Dr. Collingridge (May, 1901).
The following remarks of my predecessor, who
combined the office of Public Analyst with that
of Medical Officer of Health, possess now historic
interest, inasmuch as the point at issue has since
been determined by the authorities alluded to by
him, and they are only inserted here for the
reason that he never wearied of drawing attention
to an admitted evil, viz., a lack of any
statutory standards of purity for the guidance
of Public Analysts. It is sad to think that
Dr. Sedgwick Saunders did not live to see his
recommendations bear fruit. In his last signed
Annual Report, viz., that for 1899, will be found
some interesting observations on the vexed
question, "What is Milk ?"
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