Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Camberwell]
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acquit the milkman, although the result has given
great dissatisfaction to the Complainant.
The effects of keeping Milk have been several
times illustrated, and that too in a most interesting
manner. In the case of a Milk in which the specific
gravity deceived me, and the first analysis was
made singly, I found 8.94 per cent, of solids ; on
repeating the analysis the second day, the total
solids had diminished to 8.47. The same milk,
twenty-live days later, contained only 7.84 per
cent, of total solids.
closed bottle. A sample of an excellent milk, we have in No. 160:—
Sp gr., 1.036. | Total solids, 14.01 percent. |
Water | 85.99 |
Fat | 4.64 |
Solids* not fat | 9.3 7 |
100.00 | |
*Ash | 070 |
Salt in ash | 0.14 |