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Variations in quantity are made from time to time, and the
modification is not applied in any hard and fast manner. The
particular milk for each child, whatever its age, is carefully
considered after the first medical examination. Generally, however,
it may be said that children receiving A modification consume
from 6-10 ozs. of pure milk daily, those receiving B between 15
and 20 ozs., and those receiving C from 20-30 ozs. of pure milk
daily.
Chemical and bacteriological examinations of the milk have been
made at intervals in order to check the process. The examinations
made in London without any notice to the farm workers have shown
a steady quality of milk approximating as nearly to the standard
set out above as the natural variations in cows' milk will permit.
From a bacteriological point of view, the milk has been found to be
sterile, or, when pasteurised only, containing a few lactic acid
organisms per cubic centimetre.
The daily stock of milk is sent up by rail every night in sealed
bottles packed in specially prepared cases. On arrival at the
distributing centre, 264, Goswell Road, it is placed in a cool room,
and in summer in a refrigerator. The Depot, or distributing
centre, consists of two rooms on the first floor of a large tenement
house, one a dressing room, the other a weighing room. In the
latter room there is a refrigerator and shelves and cupboards for
storing milk if necessary. There is also the weighing balance (a