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Milk is regarded, and rightly regarded, as a possible medium for the spread of
Tuberculosis, and all possible steps should be taken to ensure that consumption of this
important article of diet is unattended by risk.
The main objects of the enquiry were to ascertain:—
(1) Whether the milk was clean,
(2) Whether it was free from pathogenic bacteria, especially the tubercle
bacillus, and
(3) Whether water had been added or cream abstracted.
The samples were sent to the City Bacteriologist, Dr. F. W. Andrewes, for
bacteriological examination, and to the City Analyst, Dr. Teed, for chemical analysis.
The Bacteriologist's report upon the question of cleanliness and pathogenicity is
as follows:—