CURRENT TOPICS.
COSTbY WATER-
Included in the extracts from the annual report of Dr Maclaurin, read at a meeting of the Wellington Hospital and Charitible Aid Board the other day, was the following:—Three hundred and seventy-two samples of milk were received from the department, 293 being taken under the Sale of Food and Drugs Act. The number taken under the Act from retail suppliers in Welling city and suburbs was IC6. Of these, one was deficient in fat; three contained boric acid, and twenty-seven contained from 2.3 to 20.9 per cent, of added water, the average being 9.6. Taking the annual consumption of milk in Wellington and suburbs as approximately 2,000,000 gallons (5500 gallons per day) and the proportion of adulterated samples found as fairly representative, then 31,230 gallons of water were sold as milk during the year. This, at 4d per quart, represents over £2000 paid by the public for water. As only a small fraction of this sum was recovered, in fines and costs, there is still a wide margin of profit for the vendors of adulterated milk."
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Northern Advocate, 26 August 1913, Page 4
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