Dairies may be rated in Shanghai as in America by three standtards, with one striking difference however. On the western continent the product of a dairy is graded as to bacterial content, that is so many germs per cubic centimetre, while locally the general average of good, had or indifferent must be placed against the record of each producer.
"A representative of the North-China Daily News" in the company of Dr, Edgar, inspecting veterinary surgeon, visited some of the lower class Chinese establishments. Conditions in these were such, that should anyone know them, he would never again buy a bottle of milk without investigating thoroughly the conditions under which it was produced and brought to market. It is small wonder that during the summer months disease is rampant and without seeming hopes of ever stamping it out. The filth and insanitary conditions existing in the immediate presence and vicinity of the cows sickens one to think of it—standing pools of muddy disease leden water, ditches drained from cesspools, foul and dirty coolies lingering and labouring on the premises and other unprintable arrangements.
The ratepayers have an energetic aad efficient organization in the Health Department with the power* and force at hand to supervise and analyze the daily consumption ai milk im the Settlement, but nevertheless the wily and unscrupulous native dairyman, both licensed and Unlicensed, outwit the officials in the performance of their duties. Tospectors on secret orders collect samples from each purveyor in a certain times, when he least suspects district at gwen their presence. These are sub-
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