ADULTERATION OF MILK.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 307, 15 September 1875, Page 2

ADULTERATION OF MILK.

One who has been watching the death list for the past few weeks, as recorded in the Daily Southern Cross, thinks attention should be called to the fact how have,been thfi.dcaUw o£ .children since the milk vendors were prosecuted for adulteration,.and wo-think he is about right.- ■ ■' •' ’ ■ i • - .Seven sample* of awlk h*ve bean analysed by MrrTunny,"" anlTour of them found to be: seriously adulterated, while some of the other samples were found fljhe flof i‘‘l>ure milk <be cow." Proceedings are to be taken against the oftefidefs, find' in the evefit df conviction taking place; it is to beulioped the magistfateyjowjH showjup but impose the heaviest penalty the law allow?. ~The milkmen in anj abound Auckland have Jiad ample, warning, and mitigated penalties have been already Imposed showing that the Bench' Are dctprnpngd. to-ynforce--the, provisions of tKe'ilatud. 1 A dhlttratfog teilk; lioweVef, is too profitable an undertaking to be put easily ’Hb’vVn ; J 'atfa, Wberi'ehce obtained in Britain,toCtififtgfbut the most active prosecution, and th® imppsitjpn of the heaviest 1 penalties, will piit A stop' to a trade which gives, in’ addition to the regular profits- of 1 a ' '‘nibfiAyteaking occupation, ill^gi.profits, .ranging from forty to sixty or seventy per cent. To putthis statement in the shape of figures, say . a,milkman has 100 gallons of pure milk to' dispose of ia a day; forty per cent, of water added thereto, which ipakes tfie quantity to be disposed of 560 qdates, instead' of 400 qudrtl, if the milk was sold unadulterated, or cash receipts', at 6d. per quart, of £l4 instead of £lO. If 60 per cent, of water were added,, the M Aam< (qi/inlityAC t>«r> milk woulabe £l6 instead of £lO, if the if the milk wereseljin a-pSre state. There is thus a great monetary inducement to unprincipled mixdsAtracCfimLujiydn Hie disposal of their milk, and it rests with, the magistrates' (wiiaimmy tw- presiding when guilt in any such-cases is brought homelopwt ® Stop to such'phtetfcda ■ Uy the'imposition of such' fines asr will mate unfair dealing in milk monetarily unprofitable.'"!' . ,;q 7Z3 z ■;■■ :-n fins 1e0‘77