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than a pint per diem. They are thus forced to buy in
the worst market. Although it is now no part of the
duty of Public Health Officers to regulate cow-keeping
and inquire into the health of cows, there are
reasonable grounds for instituting more supervision
than exists. The effects of over-prolonged lactation
upon the secretion of milk are known to be injurious
in many ways, by impairing the health of the animal
it may give use to grave suspicions that the properties
of milk are so far deteriorated as to render it an
improper article of diet, and even to communicate and
generate disease. The best guarantees we have for
the quality and purity of milk, are to purchase it from
farms near London, where pure air and good grazing
can be assured, and where the milk can be delivered to
the consumer as soon as possible after it has been taken
from the cows.
Public Baths and Laundry.
Before we can consistently expect poor persons to
carry out Sanitary orders for the cleansing of rooms,
bedding and linen, or get the necessary amount of
washing done as it ought to be, away from the
premises in which they live, it is essential that Public
Baths and a Laundry should be accessible. It will
be then a question whether "forced ablution" is not a
sound principle of Sanitary agency, to be carried out
under authority and penalty. In the casual wards, in
common lodging houses, and in prisons and lunatic
asylums, contagious maladies have no place. In the
army and in schools forced ablution is capable of, and is
essential to the preservation of large numbers of congregated
individuals free from the spreading diseases.
There are in this Parish large numbers of men and
women engaged in the most dirty of occupations; the
dust women at the yards on the Canal basin, carmen