Observations on "Tinning" Cooking Pots in India

sufficient coating of tin being applied, or to the cooks cleaning the surface of the utensils with sand and thus laying bare the copper. The result is probably a committee, which either throws the blame on the cooks or the tinning contractor, and causes much trouble to the regimental authorities and the commissariat department A short time ago when inspecting the hospital cooking utensils which had been tinned two days before, I observed they were all of a dull greyish colour, and had not the bright silvery appearance of tin. I suspected that some other metal had been mixed with the tin used for " kalaiing," and on rubbing the surface of the suspected degcliies with a clean cloth stretched tightly over the finger,I obtained the unmistakeable stain of lead, and could even detect the bright specks of the metal in the fibres of the cloth.