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1883-84.
ANALYST'S REPORTS.
St. Thomas's Hospital,
June 20th, 1883.
To the Vestry 0/ St. Giles Camberwell.
Gentlemen,
During the past quarter I have analysed 25
Milks, no fewer than ten of which were adulterated
with, respectively, 10, 21, 10, 7, 9, 18, 15, 7, 10,
and 14, per cent, of water. For so large a parish,
this number of milks seems very small, when we
consider the importance of milk as an article of food.
In two cases I have found 18 and 14 grains of carbonate
of soda in the milk, the object of which is to
prevent the souring. In several other cases the
milks have been admixed with some five per cent,
of water.