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The milk powder is received in bulk in hermetically sealed
canisters, and is packed into grease-proof bags enclosed in cartons
on which printed directions are given. Only the estimated
required quantity is packed daily in order to ensure, as far as
possible, the milk being fresh when supplied to applicants.
The supplies delivered by the Contractors during the year
have been tested both chemically and bacterioiogically, and found
to be satisfactory.

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), being 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, 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.
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