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The mere fact that the milk is skimmed, only signifies that
its strength has been reduced.
If it were,
in fact, as suggested by Dr Clark, not suitable for infants, then undoubtedly the Legislature in England would have required the addition to be made in the wording on the label which Dr. Clark proposes should be made. The poorer class in England no doubt consume large quantities of condensed skimmed milk, because of its cheaper price, and doubtless use it freely as food for their infants. If such use of it really does conduce to the mortality of infants, it cannot be suggested for a moment that its sale as food for infants would not either have been prohibited by law, or that provision
would not have been made by the Act that warning should be placed on the tins that it was not suitable for infants.
From the absence in the Act of any such requirement the
presumption must be that skimmed condensed milk is not considered by the Medical Faculty at Home to be so unsuitable.
Then why, because, in the opinion of one or two medical men, (with whom other doctors of repute do not agree), condensed skimmed milk is altogether unsuitable as food for infants, should we, in this Colony, go further than the Legislature at Home, and endeavour to restrict a legitimate trade, not only in this Colony, but in the various parts of China to which is sent by far the largest portion of the condensed skimmed milk hərə
imported?
The published report of the minutes of the Sanitary Board
with regard to the unsuitable nature for infants of condensed
skimmed milk must necessarily have a very strong tendency to
injure the trade in that commodity. Condensed milk is an article
which has not been known to the Chinese for any length of time.
Milk itself that is to say the milk of cows or goats is believed to be very seldom used by the Chinese, either as food
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