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technicalities, and so escape conviction. The point once
for all is that such a class of tradesman ought not to be
allowed to be in any trade supplying milk or other food
to the public. Some machinery should be devised for
their removal to some other sphere where their mischievous
and anti-social tendencies may be restricted.
Milk Samples Nos. 441 to 447.—Other cases of a
similar interesting character are those of milk samples
Nos. 441, 445, 446 and 447. In these cases Inspector
Henley, assisted by Inspector Weeks and the Assistant
Saunders, kept daily observation on another of these
worthy tradesmen, and in due course and at different
points of the district took the samples just referred to.
These samples are certified by the Public Analyst to
consist of 18 per cent., 13½ per cent., 14 per cent., and
13 per cent. of added water respectively. Another
sample of milk left by this same dairyman at the shop of
a small retail trader was found to be adulterated with
56 per cent. of added water, although purporting to be
milk.
As in the previous cases, this dairyman's customers
had no knowledge whatever that they were purchasing
anything but milk, and they were considerably surprised
at the result of our intervention.
A further interesting item in relation to this last
series of cases is the notice displayed bv a tradesman in
his shop to meet the legal requirements of the Food and
Drugs Act, and which permits him to sell to the public
with more or less impunity, milk of the character above
described.