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man, or sold or exposed for sale or deposited for the purpose
of sale at the time of the seizure."
This decision was appealed against, and two Judges in the
Queen's Bench Division of the High Courts of Justice decided
that "the question whether the articles were intended
for the food of man was at this stage of the proceedings
immaterial, and did not become material until Sub-section 2
of Section 47 came into operation, and the person exposing
the food for sale was charged on a summons for an offence
under the Act," and they remitted the case to the Magistrate
with the intimation that he ought to have condemned
the strawberries.
In future, therefore, Magistrates will have no doubt about
condemning unsound food which is brought before them,
apart from any technical question as to whether it was
exposed for sale or not.
Under the instructions of the Committee of Works
I prepared the following circular on the sale of low-priced
tinned milk, which was distributed throughout the Parish
by means of handbills and posters:—
Tinned Milk.
As a large amount of low-priced tinned milk is being sold
to the public, some of which is prepared from skimmed milk
and some from separated milk, the Food and Drugs Committee
consider it desirable that a cautionary notice should
be given to the inhabitants of this Parish, directing their
attention to the low nutritive properties of such preparations.
The proportion of fat in natural milk is that which is
necessary in it as a complete food for an infant, and if that
amount is reduced the preparation is no longer a complete food.
By skimming, two-thirds of the fat in the milk may be
removed, and the remainder, known as skimmed milk, no
longer contains a sufficient proportion of fat to make it a
proper food for an infant.
Separated milk is milk from which practically the whole
of the fat has been removed by means of a centrifugal
machine, and as fat is a necessary food substance in all diets,
an infant fed upon separated milk alone is subjected to a
process of slow starvation, and is as certainly starved to
death as if it were given no food at all.
Such preparations are, therefore, not suitable foods for
infants, and when given to young children they should be
accompanied by other foods, such as butter, containing fat.