An abundant supply of fresh and healthy milk is something we take for granted today. It wasn’t
always so.
In 1889,
James French
wrote to Council to complain about the quality of milk available in the City. He suggested that
cows were drinking too much water, which left the milk they produced unappealing, thin and blue-white in colour.
The complaint was likely well-founded, if a bit tongue in cheek. In the 1916 annual report of
the Food and Dairy Division of the City’s Health Department, prosecutions for watered or skimmed milk were still being reported.
Though the Inspector did note that the “majority of the offenders were old hands at the game who still persist in attempting to
make something out of nothing.”
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