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storage of food, and it is therefore the more necessary
to keep doubtful or "high and tasty" food
away from milk. It is the infant who suffers.
Last year this Council was pleased to speak
approvingly of the Report that was then laid before
it, and expressed a desire, which was given effect to,
that a larger number of copies than usual should be
printed and circulated amongst the ratepayers, with
the double object of endeavouring to interest them
in some of the work that was being carried on for
their benefit and well being under the direction of
the Sanitary Committee, and also, I take it, for the
purpose of the instruction that might and could be
conveyed by means of such a Report, on such subjects
as concerned and interested them. I think
this was a wise step in the direction of an endeavour
to reach some of those most likely to benefit by what
I might term preventive advice, and I also venture
to think that the Reports would be more read, and
the readers more interested, if they (the Reports)
embodied something beyond a mere collection of
dry and comparatively uninteresting figures with a
few deductions therefrom, and, if a moral may be
conveyed in a stage play or a story, there is no doubt
but that much useful information may be made to
reach some of the many homes where it is sorely
needed, if the occupants have it placed before them
in some form that will induce them to read it.
Holding these views, and in the belief that I
am acting in accordance with the spirit of the
instructions issued for our guidance, and that
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