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where a few pints or quarts of milk were sold. In some 

 cases, however, sanitary defects were met with at dairies 

 carrying on a large business. Although two years previously 

 instructions had been given that all the counter pans were to 

 be covered in 161 shops (or 73 per cent), no cover at all was 

 being used at the time of the enquiry. 



The provision made for storing milk and other foods in 

 the home of the consumer is frequently extremely bad, and 

 causes further pollution of the milk. In the writer's 

 experience it is quite the exception to find proper larder 

 accommodation in the homes of the working classes. By 

 proper larder accommodation is meant some place, room, or 

 even cupboard, in a cool position and with a window opening 

 into the open air. For example, in Colchester the following 

 figures were obtained in house-to-house inspections : 



Thus over 90 per cent of the houses inspected in a provincial 

 town were without any proper provision for storing milk, and 

 food generally, within the home. The usual storage place was 

 a cupboard either in the kitchen by the side of the fireplace 

 or under the stairs. Such cupboards were always unventilated 

 and without openings to the outer air. 



Orr records in his report that in 22 out of 75 cases 

 there was no ventilation whatever in the places in which the 

 milk was stored. 



