THE MILK PROBLEM

Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 137, 6 December 1918, Page 9

THE MILK PROBLEM

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —I trust that the new prominence into which tho questions of housing and sanitation have been thrust by recent events will not lead to our overlooking the milk problem. It i 3 still unsolved. Just twelve months.ago I was making up my accounts for the year, and discovered that my milk bill year in and year out was lid per day for five persons. A letter in your columns complaining of short-weight in a city shop led to the further discovery that my ' milkman's employeo was giving me short measure. I enlisted the services of an ofljcial inspector, who witnesed to the shortage on two occasions. I was quite willing to go into Court to expose the matter, but was informed by telephone that a prosecution could not succeed. I therefore sacked my milkman and employed another, whom two friends recommended as supplying pure milk to them. My ' own experience has been les3 fortunate. Half an hour after it entered the house this morning his doctored " mill:" spoiled my breakfast tea and porridge. I am one of those privileged persons who receive a war-bonus. An I review my year's expenses for 1918 I estimate that it has barely sufficed to cover medical and other charges due to months of sickness among my children, and everywhere when I probe to the' bottom of the jaundice, gastric trouble, mumps, scarlet fever we have had to battle with, I come down to the lack of -wholesome milk for thorn. For a while a, kindly neighbour consented to let me have one pint a day direct from her cow, and the marked improvement in the wan cheeks of the invalid confirms my conclusions. In the name of God, Who hates every false way, and tho children who are the hope of our country, let us settle the milk question.—l am, etc., PATERFAMILIAS. 2nd December