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Of this total, 19 (2.4 per cent.) proved to be adulterated, 10 being samples submitted
formally and 9 informally. Last year 30 (3.8 per cent.) were so certified, 14 being submitted
formally and 16 informally.
The adulterated articles consisted of Magnesia, Milk, Minced Meat, Sausages, and
Vinegar.
Milk.—Three hundred and eighty-one samples of milk were examined and five
(1.3 per cent.) fell below the limits required by the lioard of Agriculture Regulations—
3.0 per cent. of fat and 8.50 per cent. of non-fatty solids—and were certified to bo
adulterated.
Three of the adulterated samples were deficient in fat, the amount in each case being
at least 5.0, 16.6 and 18.0 per cent. respectively, and to the two remaining adulterated
samples, water had been added to the extent of at least 2.1 and 3.4 per cent. respectively.
Although the number of samples of milk examined was considerably more than last
year, those which fell below the modest requirements of the Board of Agriculture limits were
only five—less than half the number so certified last year.
In the table given below, prepared by the Publie Health Department, the results oi
the genuine milks are set out month by month and compared with the two previous years
taken from a similar table introduced in the last Annual Report.

It will be noted that the average composition of the milk supply was well maintained.
Magnesia.—The sample of magnesia certified to be adulterated consisted entirely of
magnesium carbonate and not of the oxide which was desired.