The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-04-24 00:00:00

ADULTERATED BUTTER.

r A. few weeks since, the subject of the seizure of a large
quantity of butter was brought before the board, and it
VMS then decided that samples thereof should be sub-
mitted to a chemical analysation. The following is the
report thereon :
This is to -unify, I have submitted - the of butter
left w.th we on the 3rd instant to a further chemical and
microeheoacal Eximination, wilt a view to determine the
origin of the veptable matter desciibed in my former report
a, mucilage." The results I nave oh:ainel lead to but one
conclusion, that t is derive,l fimu liish moss, or a seaweed
'very clos,ly to it. It is impossible to decide the exact
tpeciti, owing to the chancre the eltan,ntary tissues have under-
one by the action of heat, salt, arid fat. I find also a small
proportion of nitre :associated with the salt. The average of
five experiments rives as follows, viz :

Butter
Salt (chloride sodium)
Nitre (iiitraie potas.ia)
Vcgeta.hio matter, derived from Irish 1.11j9 or
other seaw with water

47.4
23 4
00.8

23.3

99 9

What influence these admixtures may have upon health, I
am not in a position to stab'. H. SUGDJtN EVANS, F.C.S.
Liiverpool, April 21, l 857:
After some conversation on the subj,!ct, in answer to Mr.
Hodson, Mr. Cameror, the medical offic3r of health,
stated that he did rot cunAder the small quantity of potash
ontaine I in the butter to be injurious t., ne ,l,h.
Mr. Tinne thought the object e•f... the committee would
have been attained by giving yto such a practice.
The Clerk said that the szly person they coul i punish
*culd be the original raker of the butter, who, he bolieved,
lived on the other 5'...t.U3 of the Atlantic.

THE WATER SUPPLY.
Mr. Beckwith : Mr. Engineer, is there any scarcity of
• ?

The Engineer : In some districts.
Mr. 13'..ck with said he had received several complaints of
ttha want of a proper supply of water, and directed attention
t thelollowing letter:-
26, Coleridge street, Kensington, 20th April, 1857.
Dear. Sir,—This neighbourlriod is greatly inconvenienced
owing to the-very limi el supply, amounting in some cases to
almost no supply, of water. We have had to send to the
pits in aljoinitig fielda for what was absolutely requisite for,
yesterday (Sunday); and at this time, eleven o'clock, not
more than:about two or three gallons full have been supplied to
us toAlay,.our neighbours being, of course, in much the same
predicament, although the water was on on Saturday for not
more than a few minutes, and then net in full force, but only
as that a very bare quantity could be obtained. My servant
was washing out the tub on Saturday for a supply, and in the
tine so occupied the water was passed off without her being
able to obtain a mug full, and we had applications for water
and complaints from several similarly circumstanced. This is
not the first time we have been so treated,. and we are frequently
with a very meagre quantit%. If a very sharp look out were
not always kept, we should be frequently without any water
for the most ordinary purposes. Will you excuse my troubling
yeti with this matter. I have written a note to Mr. Alderman
Cooper, as chairman of the water committee, but I need not
tell you that this is a state of things perfectly unendurable,
and demanding a very strong expression of opinion. If there
be some accidental or pressing necessity for short supplies a
timely notice to the particular neighbourhood might easily be
givenomd should be insisted upon. I must, again apologise
for troubling you; but I believe that if such a state of things
existi you would prefer to bear of it, and in an authentic form.
—I am, dear sir. yOurs obediently and faiLhfully,
To R. M. Beckwith, Esq. F. S. B
Mr. Hodson said he would bring the matter before the
Water Committee.