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iii.
Miscellaneous.
It may be noted that a conviction was obtained for a cocoa
in which the weight had been increased by an admixture with a
red sand.
Of six samples of bacon, three contained boric acid, 38 and
43 grains to the pound ; a beef sausage contained 29.4 grains of
boric acid to the pound ; and a saveloy 10.4 grains to the pound.
What with the common occurrence of boric acid in cream,
butter, sausages and bacon—all ordinary breakfast articles,
although but little may be in each, yet, considering the aggregate,
many of us get well disinfected below the belt before commencing
the day's work. The writer prefers to trust to his own
fluids to keep down inimical microbes.
A. Wynter blyth.