TESTIMONY OF CHARLES F. CHANDLER. 41 



A. It is that the lactometer as used by the Health Department 

 with the 100 mark placed at 1.029, and used in connection with the 

 ordinary senses of sight, taste, and smell, is the most reliable meth- 

 od for determining the excessive watering of milk. 



Q. Now, sir, if a sample of milk sold in this city be tested by the 

 lactometer and it stands, with the milk at a temperature by the 

 thermometer of 60 Fahr., at a point below 100, at 90 for instance, 

 what does that determine ? A. That it has been watered. 



Q. The milk inspectors employed by the Board of Health, are 

 they qualified to test milk ; I ask your personal knowledge upon 

 that subject ? 



(Objected to ; question withdrawn.) 



Q. You are President of the Board of Health ? A. I am. 



Q. And you were in the summer of 1876 ? A. I was. 



Q. And the witness on the stand, Dr. White, is one of the inspec- 

 tors employed by the Board? A. He is. 



Q. Now, sir, I understood you to say that the test of the Board 

 of Health was by the use of the lactometer and the thermometer 

 and with the senses, with the smell, the taste, and the sight? 

 A. It is. 



Q. Can milk thus be distinguished from cream ? A. It can. 



Q. Will the inspector using these tests have under his observa- 

 tion conditions in the milk which will enable him to distinguish 

 skimmed milk and other varieties of adulterated milk ? 



(Objected to as calling for a conclusion.) 



Q. Are you acquainted with the kind of milk that is offered for 

 sale in this city ? A. I am. 



Q. Doctor, I ask you as an expert on this question, can you tell 

 the difference by the use of these tests described as in use by the 

 Board of Health, the difference between milk with the natural 

 cream and skimmed milk and watered milk and milk variously 

 adulterated ? 



(Objected to ; objection overruled ; exception.) 



A. I can distinguish between cream and milk and skimmed milk 

 by the use of those tests. 



By the COURT Q. By the lactometer? A. By the lactometer 

 and by observation ; by my senses. 



By Mr. PRENTICE Q. And a thermometer ? A. A thermometer ; 



