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PUBLIC ANALYST'S REPORT.
Gentlemen,
I take the opportunity, in presenting my First Annual Report,
of thanking you for the honor you have done in selecting me as
your Analyst, and to assure you of my intention to deserve your
confidence.
Since my appointment as successor to Dr. Bianchi, I have received
every assistance from that gentleman; the interregnum
between his cessation from, and my commencing the office of
Analyst, proving very distinctly the absolute need for looking after
the food of the people.
Adulteration, in the case of Milk, had greatly increased, and it
has taken some months to convince many of the vendors that your
Board is thoroughly in earnest in putting down the practice.
Since executing my office, practically within the last nine
months, your Inspector, Mr. Errington, has brought me 128
samples.
Milk takes the first place as an article of food, and I am bound
to say that I have met with an amount of adulteration quite
beyond my experience as a Public Analyst. "What is to be said
of a Milk (No. 59) having the following composition ?—
Sp. Gr. 1.014
Total Solids 5.73
"Water 94.27
Pat 1.58
Solids, not fat 4.15
100.00
Ash 0.47
Salt in Ash 0.23
Here we have a Milk watered to the extent of 54 per cent., and
salted in order to cover its poverty. Surely it is not too much to
assert that, owing to the injury to infant life from the administration
of such Milks as Nos. 20, 24, 39, 56, 59, 70, 71, 75, 88, and
93, the vendors stand forth in their relation to the public as slow
poisoners.