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Michaelmas, 1883.
It was suggested by myself that the number
???f Milk Analyses made during the quarter, usually
???hirty, was very small for so large a parish, In
???onsequence, the Vestry instructed the Sanitary
Committee to increase the number, and this has
???een done.
Fifty-two Milks have been examined, and the
???inclusions have justified the recommendation.
Two of the Milks were sold as skim-milks ; one was
genuine, the other contained Thirty per cent of
added water.
Of the rest, seventeen were adulterated with
respectively, 12, 9, 7, 10, 6, 6, 15, 20, 10, 10, 7, 10,
15, 20, 6, 14, and 30 per cent.
Nor does this represent the whole of the adulteration,
as at least five more lay on the borderland of
prosecution and non-prosecution.
Of four Breads, and three Butters, it may be
said that they were genuine.
A sample of mixed Sweets, was good of its kind,
and Toffy, which belong to the same category was