A Good Milk Run.
Thirty thousand pounds a day is the estimated cost of the milk consumed by Londoners. During what is known as the " season," when fashionable folk are in town, more than £2000 worth of cream is consumed daily. Some of the milk used by Londoners comes from country districts 150 miles away. Twenty thousand people are engaged in selling the milk. A few years ago London milk was delivered at houses by Irish and \Velsh women, who wore short petticoats, heavy boots,* amd carried two cans suspended from a wooden yoke. These %&vb been almost entirely superseded by the familiar long, low, and chariot-like carts, and also by carrier tricycles. Three-quarters of the milk; used in London is doled out in pennyworths and halfpennyworths. In addition to the #10,000 worth of cows/ milk, £200 worth of goats' and asses' milk is used for invalids. Hospitals are the best customers. The milk bill of one London Hospital amounts to £1 10s per day.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 7 January 1892, Page 3
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165A Good Milk Run. Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 7 January 1892, Page 3
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