§ 24. Mr. MYERSasked the Minister of Health the number of prosecutions instituted in England and Wales in respect of the sale of milk for the last complete year for which figures are available, with the number of cases in which added adulteration was the nature of the charge, and the number of cases in which the milk was below the recognised percentage in fat contents, with the corresponding figures for the year 1913?
§ Sir A. MONDI regret that. I have no figures available as to the number of prosecutions instituted in England and Wales in respect of the adulteration of milk. In 1921 the number of samples of milk certified as adulterated or not up to standard was 5,290 out of 61,439 samples taken compared with 5,533 out of 52,304 in 1913. I am unable to give separate figures for the different forms of adulteration.