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that no paraffin shall be sold or stored in the shop itself, that the
milk shall be kept in closed vessels or the milk pans kept continually
covered, and that no bedroom shall communicate directly
with the milkshop. With regard to the paraffin, in the case of
those milkshops which were already on the register when the
London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1908, came into
force, the sale of paraffin in the milkshops has never been inhibited.
It would be better to have one regulation for all milk
shops and prohibit absolutely the sale of paraffin in all where it
was sold over the shop counter or stored in the milkshop.
Milk Samples and Analyses.—The total number of milk
samples taken was 352, of which 38, or 10.8 per cent.
were found to be adulterated on the standard adopted
by the Board of Agriculture—that is not less than 8.5
per cent. of non-fatty solids and not less than 3 per cent. of fat.
The percentage of adulterated samples has increased slightly in
recent years and is in all probability associated with the increased
prevalence of toning the milk adopted by large distributing companies
or quasi-trust. This toning is conducted by adding
skimmed milk, condensed milk and water, or water to the milk
until its constituents approximate to the standards quoted above.
I his "toning process is also known as "standardising" the
milk, and is one of the drawbacks attaching to the fixing of a
definite standard for milk constituents.
All the milk dealers in the Borough are sampled from time to
time—no exception is made.
Special samples, 100 in number, are taken in the evening, or
on Sundays at irregular and unusual hours.
The attached table gives the statistics lor the past 12 years.