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REPORT OF CHEMICAL LABORATORY 



ANALYSES OP WATER PROM THE WHITE NILE. IN THE SUDD REGION 



• See note in connection with Table on page 



Mii.K Supply of Khartoum 



.Milk adultera- 

 tion 



A dairy under Government niana^ciiniit exists in Khartoum, aud during the five colder 

 months a limited amount of milk and Initter of <;ood (jnality is olitainable from it. For the 

 rest of the year no butter is to bo had, and the only milk available is that supplied by the 

 native vendors. Most of this is goat's milk, but a few cows are also kept for the purpose. 

 In UKU, a number of samples obtained in the Khartoum Silk were examined, but these, 

 while leaving much to be desired as regards eleanliness, were evidently whole milk, undiluteil 

 and unskinune(l. Recently, attention was called to the poor quality of the milk supplied to 

 the Civil Hospital, and examination showed it to contain about 25 per cent, of addeil 

 water. Once started on this apparently royal road to fortune, the native milk-seller could 

 see no reason for moderation in his pace. The milk supplied to the Grand Hotel, for 

 instance, gave the following resiilts on analysis : — 



The average total solids of the goat's milk already examined was over 13 per cent. 

 The above milk (?) evidently containeil something like 75 per cent, of added water. 

 Whether, ultimately, delicate tests would have discovered as much as a faint trace of fatty 

 and non-fatty solids in Khartoum milk, hatl not the Medical Oflicer of Health stepped in and 



