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from the time I have acted as your Analyst. I
have had genuine samples of milk forwarded to me
from time to time, so that I might acquaint myself
with the changes the milks underwent from month to
month, and have found the standard we adopted to
be a perfectly legitimate one. Even from my
Camberwell experience, I can safely say, that many
an honest vendor could have added 10 per cent. of
water, and it would have fairly passed muster, and I
am well assured that the system has been practised
by those who are not equally upright. One of the
fairest modes of judgment of milks, is by the
standards generally furnished by the Inspectors,
drawn from the samples brought at the same time.
Let us take Nos. 18 and 20 brought on the same
day; the former with 9.42 per cent. of solids, not fat,
and 0.72 of ash; the latter with 7.58 per cent.
of solids, not fat, and 0.58 per cent. of ash. The
diminution in the ash corresponds with the amount
of water added.
Again, tested by the experience of the past and
the present, how is it, I may be allowed to ask, that
the quality of milk in Camberwell has so greatly
improved, that there is not now one-third of the
amount of adulteration in milk that was the case only
two years since? No system of fines could have
brought about so great a change ! When it is said