LONDON'S DAILY MILK.
Thirty thousand pounds & day is the estimated cost of the milk consumed by Londoners. X>uring what is known as the “ seasou,” when fashionable folk are in town, move man £'2,iX*i worth of creara 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 London milk was delivered at houses by Irish and Wei sir women, who wore short petticoats, heavy boots, and carried two cans suspended from a wooden yoke; These have been almost entirely superseded by the familiar long, low, and chariot-like carts, and also by carrier tricycles Three-quarters of the milk used in Londoni s doled out in pennyworths and halfpennyworths. In addition to the £30,000 worth of cows’ milk,. £2OO worth of goats* and asses* milk is used for invalids. Hospitals are the beat customers, lire milk bill of one London hospital amounts to £7 10 per day.
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Waipawa Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 2712, 23 January 1892, Page 3 (Supplement)
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163LONDON'S DAILY MILK. Waipawa Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 2712, 23 January 1892, Page 3 (Supplement)
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