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Name of School. Result.
Globe Road 7 per cent, deficient in
butter-fat or cream.
St. Martin's Mission Genuine
Portman Place do.
Pritchards Road do.
Mowlem Street do.
Olga Street do.
St. John's do.
Mansford Street do.
Wilmot Street do.
Hague Street do.
Abbey Street do.
At a few other schools milk is delivered, at which
no samples have been taken, as the quantity supplied is so
small—usually a pint or so—as to be not worth while.
The milk is still supplied under conditions similar to
what existed in January last; in some cases under contracts,
in others not. In some instances the milk is
delivered warm, in others it is warmed by the school
authorities before being used.
In one case—that of Globe Road—the milk was
found to be below the standard to the extent of 7 per cent.
deficient in butter-fat or cream. The Public Health Committee
ordered legal proceedings to be taken in respect of
this sample, and at the hearing of the case at the Police
Court on the 3rd inst., the defence set up was that the
milk was sold exactly as it came from the cows.
It was proved in evidence that a professional analyst
had been called in to take samples of milk from certain