[Report 1916] / Medical Officer of Health, Salford County Borough.
- Salford (England). County Borough Council.
- Date:
- 1916
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1916] / Medical Officer of Health, Salford County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![The time has come when, in the interest of the publi< health, those vendors who sell dirty milk must be forcec to adopt those methods of cleanliness which have alread been adopted by their more careful competitors. The sediment found is, in many cases, cow-dung, anc of the danger of this to infant life it is scarcely possible tc speak too strongly. It is frequently stated that it is quit' easy to get over this difficulty by passing the milk throng] a fine sieve. This is, however, entirely erroneous, and i is a most dangerous doctrine—in fact, the use of the siev might do harm in removing the index of pollution. The harm likely to be caused by the cow-dung is du to the infection of the milk by the bacteria of variou diseases such as diarrhoea, which multiply rapidly in tb milk. Subsequent removal of the cow-dung by meclu nical means will not, of course, remove the disease producing bacteria. For the present, those samples which give a sedimei of more than five volumes per 100.000 are being calk adulterated, although, from the figures given above, tb is obviously a very lenient standard and one which mu subsequently be made more severe. Three samples ha contained more than this amount, 5503, 5510, and 551 which contained six, six, and ten volumes per 100,0< respectively, the sediment consisting largely of cow-dun The three vendors were specially cautioned by the Medic- Officer of Health as to the serious nature of the offence Butter, Margarine. One hundred and thirty-four samples of butter haj| been examined during the year, of which two we](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30067224_0130.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
