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St Giles (Camberwell) 1883
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Camberwell]
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This milk has 6 per cent of added water And now
for the report of the referees at Somerset House.
I had given the results of the analysis as follows:—
| Sp. gr. 1030. | Cream 4½ per cent. |
" From a consideration of these results, and after
making addition for the natural loss arising from
the decomposition of the milk through keeping, we
are of opinion that the milk contains not less than
10 per cent. of added water."
I would make the further remark that this milk
really contains 8 per cent. of added water according
to the standard of Public Analysts. The degradation
in this case, after a fornight's keeping, amounts
to 0.97 or nearly 1 per cent. ! If it had been as low
as in the former case, heard on the same day, and
calculated after a certain formula of the Referees,
the milk would have been reported as genuine.