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Submitted. From the attached minute it will be seen that Major Dempster will not be given the assistance he desires. The necessity of frequently examining the milk supply of the Colony is an admitted fact.
50/ Hugh 241 "Callum
Alor lor Ste.
M? A (allaww,
'do not
executing
I do not think it is any.
more with lo Ml? Crow,
he clearly states, when the last milk
was at that he had no time for
this kind of work,
his whole time having to be given to dispensing
of S.M. Price
The Secretary,
26. 6o. 86.
of the Sanitary Board,
to analyze
On
Xa
I regret my inability;
the sample of milk forwarded,
the 12th instant.
My time is now
fully occupied
in the preparation and dispensing of
for the present dam
medicine and
compelled
in the absence of instructions from the Government to the contrary to attend to the strictly Pharmaceutical work of the
Department to the almost total exclusion of analytical work.
of Wm Edward Crow:
Govt Civil Hospital,
21.4 June, 1886.
Submitted to the chairman,
This relates to a sample of
suspected adulterated milk which was
sent to me
by Major I. C. Dempster and forwarded to the Government analyst for analysis,
in accordance with the instructions contained in CSO(70)2534/85-
This minute is practically a distinct
refusal
to do such work for the Board, and I recommend that it should be
transmitted to the Government for
its
information. Sir Hugh McCallum
21.6.20
Bury