A YLESBUR V DAIR Y COMPANY 483 



For the supply of hospitals the Company slightly modify their 

 system. Briefly, it differs from that in vogue for the ordinary milk 

 supply, in that the various officers report direct to the hospital, 

 and a daily analysis is also supplied. 



Managrement in London. — The health of the employes at the 

 chief depot or branches is under the supervision of medical officers 

 appointed by the Company. Notices are posted in conspicuous 

 positions in the dairies informing employes that they must, under 

 penalty of instant dismissal, report all cases of sickness in them- 

 selves or their families, and a form is sent to the medical officer 

 for his report ; the wages of men suspended from duty through 

 infectious illness are paid in full. 



The contract, as we have seen, requires that all milk must be 

 cooled to as low a temperature as can be obtained by a refrigerator, 

 dispatched by a certain train (which is the earliest available), and 

 sent in sealed churns. On arriv-ing at the London terminus the 

 Company's vans await the milk and convey it to the chief or branch 

 depots. Here after the quantity of milk is noted and its tempera- 

 ture, specific gravity, and, if necessary, its acidity determined and 

 approved, the milk is passed over a refrigerator, cooled with brine 

 from the freezing plant (which reduces its temperature to 40"" F.) and 

 collected in a tank, from which the churns, bottles, etc, in which it 

 is sent out, are filled. Milk from certain selected farms is bottled 

 and sealed for delivery as nursery milk. A certain proportion of 

 the milk is pasteurised, and then cooled by running in succession 

 over coolers supplied by water from the main, and a refrigerator 

 cooled by brine. Another portion is used for the manufacture of 

 cream, the milk is separated while hot, and the cream and skim 

 milk cooled separately with coolers on the water and brine systems. 

 Another portion is used for the manufacture of milk preparations, 

 and this is cooled at the farm by a freezing plant, and sterilised on 

 its arrival in London. The churns in which the milk arrives and 

 the vessels in which it goes out are all washed in a soda bath, 

 cleansed by special machinery, and finally sterilised by blowing 

 high pressure steam into them, before being returned to the farmer, 

 who is required to rinse them with boiling water before use. 



The clerical department is so organised that the Company can, 

 at any time, tell from reference to their books not only the quantity 

 of milk that each customer is supplied with, but where it comes 

 from and what its analysis is. In the laboratory, a sample of milk 

 from each farm is daily examined, as well as a sample of every 

 bulk of milk that leaves the premises ; all milk having a specific 



