Public documents of the State of Connecticut . e of bad surroundings upon milk may be seenin a case reported in my paper on the Park River, in which thebacilli found in the water of the Little River, and the atmosphere,were also discovered in the stagnant milk which produced septicsymptoms in a little child, f The most frequent adulterations to which milk is liable, arewater, water combined with the abstraction of cream, chalk,sugar, gums, borax, salt, salicylic acid to milks likely to decom-pose, glycerine and coloring matters to conceal the blue coloringdue to watering. Water is the most fre

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Public documents of the State of Connecticut . e of bad surroundings upon milk may be seenin a case reported in my paper on the Park River, in which thebacilli found in the water of the Little River, and the atmosphere, were also discovered in the stagnant milk which produced septicsymptoms in a little child, f The most frequent adulterations to which milk is liable, arewater, water combined with the abstraction of cream, chalk, sugar, gums, borax, salt, salicylic acid to milks likely to decom-pose, glycerine and coloring matters to conceal the blue coloringdue to watering. Water is the most frequent adulterant of milk. It is used inproportion of from 12 to 40 per cent. According to ProfChandler, of the 120, 000, 000 quarts of milk sent to New Yorkevery year, 40, 000, 000 quarts of water are added to it, whichbring |4, 000, 000, or $12, 000 per day. The photo-micrographshows the effect of this diluting of milk. The solids are decreased . * Milk in health and disease, Smee. f Vide Park River Nuisance, State Board Health 1884, p. 186. Fig- 1. Fig. 2. !V&W5^