£30,000 of Milk Per Day.
£80,000 per 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, and 20,000 people are engaged selling the milk. A few years ago London milk was delivered by Irish and Welsh women, who wore short petticoats, heavy boots, and carried 2 cans suspended from a wooden yoke. These have been almost entirely .jup*erseded by the familiar long, low, and charioMike carts, and also by carrier , tricycles. Three- • quarters of the milk used in London is doled out in pennyworths. In addition to the £80,000 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 Hospi*. tal amounts to £7 10a a day.
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Manawatu Herald, 28 July 1896, Page 3
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161£30,000 of Milk Per Day. Manawatu Herald, 28 July 1896, Page 3
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