Observations on London milk : showing its unhealthy character, and poisonous adulterations : with remarks on the food of the cows, their pestilential places of confinement, with suggestions for remedying the evil / by H. Hodson Rugg.

  • Rugg, Henry Hodson.
Date:
[1850?]
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Credit: Observations on London milk : showing its unhealthy character, and poisonous adulterations : with remarks on the food of the cows, their pestilential places of confinement, with suggestions for remedying the evil / by H. Hodson Rugg. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    (For it must be wrested from the low, ignorant set, who for the most part monopolise the milk trade of the metropolis ; what can we expect from them.) We must have men of philanthropy and honour, who would be above the common tricks of the trade, and who would feel an honest pride in giving the people a pure, genuine milk, drawn from cows that were healthy, that were properly cleaned, and kept free from the mange. In conclusion, I ,think no one can possibly deny, that a genuine, pure, unadulterated milk, is a consummation devoutly to be wished. [At the moment of going to press my attention has been drawn to a poliee report which appeared in the Morning Post, August 31st, 1819, headed “ Mysteries of the Milk Trade.” It appears that Robert Burrows, a milkman, was charged be- fore Mr. Hardwick with using abusive and threatening lan- guage towards William Tall, another milkman, and making a disturbance in the streets. Amongst a number of adultera- ting substances they accused each other of mixing with their milk, was a “ decoction of sheeps’ brains and whiting.” Thus we see, when milkmen quarrel, the truth will out,] 08TELL, PRINTER, HART STREET, BLOOMSBURY.