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VESTRY of ST. GILES, CAMBERWELL.
Quarterly Reports received from Dr. Bernays, as Public Analyst,
under the "adulteration of foods act," for the year
ending Lady-Day, 1879.
Chemical Laboratory,
St. Thomas's Hospital Medical and Surgical College,
Midsummer, 1S78.
To the Vestry of St. Giles, Camberwell.
Gentlemen,
In presenting my Quarterly Report, I have to
call attention to increased Adulteration in Milks.
No fewer than seven out of twenty-five were adulterated.
or equal to 28 per cent. In addition, several
were only passable, and this in the summer season,
with abundance of grass. If, when purchased by
our Inspectors so large a percentage is admixed with
water, what must be the condition of large quantities
of unexamined milk! It must, in part, be owing to
the apathy of the inhabitants, as I have not had a