Two more milk cases were heard by. Messrs. Mead and Tsang at the Mixed Court last Friday.
Mr. Burton, Health Officer, told the Court, in the first case, that at 620 a.m. on Thursday the accused was found in Kiangwan Road with 11 bottles of milk in his possession, ove of which was unsealed. Ha told witness that he came from an unlicensed dairy off Kiangwan Road. The bottle, it seemed, had never been washed since it was used for its original purpose, the label on the bottle being "Fine Scotch Whisky." Upon analysis, the milk wa. found to be adulterated with 25.9 per cent. of water. Witness visited the dairy and found four cows in the room of a dwelling house. There was only 1,008 cubic feet of space, whereas for four cows there should have been at least 3,200 ewbic fect. The lighting of the room, which was used for sleeping purposes, was bad and part of the room was set aside for the bottling of milk. The water supply came, idantly, from an open creek or 7 shallow well, both of which were unsanitary. The drainage was nothing like the standard.
Acoused admitted the offence and asked to be excused.
The Assessor, in fining the man $100, said that it was bad enough that the milk was being distributed without a licence, but the matter was made much worse by the adding of water.
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