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too much license and at the expense of the Public Health.
For how much longer will this state of affairs be tolerated?
For quite long enough it has been recognised that reformation
in the milk trade is desirable. The stage of expectancy has
passed and gone, and now the demand for action on the part
of local authorities has arisen and is imperative.
Daily Bread.
Judging from the great quantity of white bread displayed
in the bakers' shops and the bakehouses of the District, the
public do not realize that in the selection of white bread they
are being carried away by appearances and are not getting
the best value for their money in the way of a nourishing
article. The grain of wheat, when ground whole is full of
nutritious properties, mineral substances for the bones, the
teeth, the brain and the nerves, and also flesh forming
materials, together with the embryo or germ, which is rich in
oil, in nitrogeneous matters and in phosphoric acid. Therefore
brown bread is best. Further, flne brown flour is better than
coarse, because more flesh-forming material can be extracted
from a fine meal than a coarse one, and not only more fleshforming
material, but more mineral substances are extracted
by the human body from brown flour than from a similar
weight of fine white flour.
But for those who do not like brown bread, even if it be
made from finely ground whole wheaten meal, the next best
bread is the old-fashioned Household bread, which is cream
coloured and retains 80 per cent. of the grain together with the
chemical products of the embryo or germ. As so large a proportion
of the food eaten by the working classes is bread, and
the computation that has been made is that it amounts to 2-5ths
of the weight of food consumed by them, it is obvious that
nourishing bread and flour are of vital importance to those
poor people of Beckenham who have families to bring up. And
when ordering their bread they should stipulate that potatoes
be not mixed with the wheat flour from the dough of which
the bread is made.