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while the intermediate amounts being described as rising "fairly
well," but these experiments were done with pure self-raising
ingredients, and the results cannot be applied to the ordinary
commercial self-raising flours or powders. It seems the neutral
ingredient which increased the bulk and decreased the efficiency
is the products known as calcium sulphate, and this occurs in
commercial baking powders in various amounts from 6 to 55
per cent. of the total.
Under these circumstances, it seems useless to conduct a
prosecution, and I would recommend that a representation be
made to the Board pointing out the necessity for having a standard
for baking powders, for only in this way will the interests
of the public be safeguarded. I do not think it is impossible to
fix a standard, for I believe America has one already.
War Memorial.
In May, 1919, the following report oil the question of the War
Memorial was submitted to the Public Health Committtee:-
"The question of a suitable War Memorial for the
Borough has been before the War Memorial Committee,
and various projects have been advocated. Among several
suggestions at their first meeting was one made by the
Mayor that a children's hospital would make a very suitable
memorial. I attended this meeting with the intention of
making a similar proposal, and of later backing up the
suggestion of the Mayor by some facts and figures bearing
on the feasibility of the suggestion, but unfortunately was
unable, owing to another Committee meeting, to remain
and explain my views to the Committee. I thought possibly
another opportunity might have been afforded to me
by the Executive Committee which was appointed by the
Council later, but as far as I can gather, that Committee
seems to have decided on a stone monument to be erected
in some part of the Borough in memory of the Bermondsey
men who fell in the Great War.
It is not my intention to dispute the wisdom of this
decision, because the cost of a monument will be so small
as compared with the erection and maintenance of a children's