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reports I think this brief summary of particulars covering
five years would be incomplete without it. The circular is
issued with a view to making the Council's Dried Milk scheme
more generally known and there can be no doubt that the
many advantages and beneficial results obtained by its use
has been realised by hundreds of parents residing in the
Borough.
Circular 185 of the Ministry of Health, dated 31st
March, 1921, has been followed and samples of Dried Milk
from each consignment have been submitted to chemical
analysis and bacteriological examination. Stock books,
authorised vouchers, showing receipts and issues are kept
and monthly stocktakings are carried out.
DRIED MILK.
What every Nursing Mother ought to know.
The Council are selling Full Cream Milk in a dried form
suitable for infants and nursing mothers.
Dried Milk is a valuable food (not a patent manufactured
food) bring good cows milk from which the moisture has
been evaporated and possesses certain special advantages.
Liquid milk cannot be kept for any lengthened period without
undergoing changes which render it unfit for food, but
Dried Milk can undoubtedly be preserved for a considerable
time with practically unimpaired food value.
Dried Milk is an excellent substitute—not for breast
milk, but for much of the milk upon which infants are now
fed. Under present conditions pure fresh cows milk is
practically unattainable in most towns, and in view of the
liability to bacterial changes in fresh milk when kept in the
ordinary dwelling-house, especially in hot weather, it is often
desirable to use dried milk in preference.
By its use waste is preventable; the exact quantity can
be made up as and when occasion requires.
The processes used in drying milk largely reduce the
number of bacteria present and materially decrease the risk of
conveyance of disease from tuberculous milk, a very common
cause of tuberculosis in children.