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and 106, are very objectionable, and I have given your
Inspectors certificates of prosecution. But whether
these should be employed, except in the way of warning,
I am not prepared to say. Nevertheless I would add
a caution which mothers might generally avail themselves,
viz.:—only to buy such powders of druggists
and respectable perfumers and hairdressers. The
admixture of nearly 75 per cent. of gypsum in the case
of 105 and of nearly 50 per cent. of soapstone in Xo.
106 would indicate the uncertainty of the preparation.
There was no white arsenic, but whenever common
powders are admixed as make-weights, there is always
danger that some positively injurious compound may
be added by mistake.
Christmas, 1878.
In the Quarter just passed, I have analysed
thirty samples of Milk including a sample taken from
a mixture of Milks derived from fifteen cows.
I am sorry to say that there is no decrease in
adulteration as regards Milk, but I believe that much