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Data Cream Solids
1871. per cent. per cent,
W June 16 7.0 11.54
„ 17 10.0 11.36
X June 6 — 10.06
„ 9 10.0 9.74
Y June 13 8.0 10.80
„ 14 — 6.16
Z June 16 6.0 10.06
„ 17 5.0 9.70
A A June 13 4.0 7.26
„ 14 4.0 7.56
B B June 6— 11.12
„ 19 7.0 9.90
C C June 13 1.0 7.06
„ 14 4.0 7.22
D D June 6 — 8.52
„ 9 5.0 8.14
E E June 13 6.0 8.96
„ 14 5.0 8.42
F F June 13 7.0 9.00
„ 14 — 11.02
GG June 6 — 9.36
„ 9 8.0 9.58
H H June 16 6.0 8.92
„ 17 5.0 8.78
All the above specimens were skimmed or watered, or both, some outrageously.
Some of the worst of these specimens of milk were purchased
at shops in low neighbourhoods near the Essex Road, the worst of all,
C.C. , in the neighbourhood of Frog Lane. But A. and B.B. are very extensive
milk sellers, supplying some of the best houses in the parish. Several of
them keep cows in the parish, so that, in their cases, there can be no
excuse of their being themselves defrauded by the wholesale purveyor. The
editor of the journal in which these analyses are published (himself no mean
authority) adds this remark, "If Dr. Ballard calculates the amount of
milk consumed by his fellow parishioners, and remembers that they are
paying for skimmed and watered milk the price of the genuine article, he
will find that in Islington alone dairymen receive many thousand pounds
annually for water." One startling fact comes out of the investigation, to
which it would be well to give heed, namely, that at present, although the