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headway, and it is evidently difficult to make a bottle both 

 satisfactory as a milk-container and cheap enough to be thrown/ 

 away after use. 



D. CAKE OF MILK BY THE CONSUMER 



The consumer urgently requires education. There is often 

 a lamentable lack of care for the storage of milk in the home. 

 This is in part due to the absence of facilities for milk and food 

 storage, as pointed out in Chapter XV., but in addition amongst 

 the poorer classes there is only too frequently very imperfect 

 and hazy notions in regard to the ease with which milk can 

 become polluted. 



The provision of proper food storage in a new house should 

 be as rigidly insisted upon as, say, a damp-course. The larder 

 may be quite small, but it must have a window which opens 

 to the outer air, must be protected from flies, and must not be 

 part of a kitchen or other living room. 



Provision of storage room and instruction of householders 

 as to the necessity of care in storage, the use of perfectly clean 

 vessels, the necessity of covering milk and keeping it cool, are 

 all essential to prevent contamination of milk after delivery. 



