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their quality in the months of October, November
and December. Instead of 9 per cent. of solids,
not fat, which is the amount of solids taken as the
basis of our calculation, we have an average of 9½
per cent. If this were remembered when a judgment
is given upon a Milk adulterated with 10 per cent of
water, there would be no room for the exhibition of such
leniency as is shown in so many cases; I suppose 10 per
cent. upon our standard, means the payment by the public
of London of the sum of £400,000 as an additional
Water Rate, so that even when the water is pure the tax
is a heavy one. How unfair to the honest tradesman
such leniency on the part of some, must be obvious to all.
Only one milk has been forwarded by a
Parishioner during the past quarter; this was adulterated
with 19 per cent, of water.
Besides the milks eight Butters have been
analyzed; three were decidedly of the nature and
quality demanded; one of the other five was sufficiently
adulterated (with at least 40 per cent of added
fat) to advise that it was not of the nature and
quality demanded. In the other cases I have been
obliged, from a former unpleasant experience, to
allow a margin which I myself do not believe in.