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INSPECTION & SUPERVISION OF FOOD.
Milk Supply.
125 applications were approved by the Borough Council for
registration under the Milk and Dairies Order, 1926. 63 of the
applications were change of purveyor at registered premises, 56
were for the sale of milk in sealed bottles only, and 1 for wholesale
and retail trade in the borough by firms resident outside the
borough.
Special licences were issued in accordance with the Milk
(Special Designations) Order, 1923, as follows :—
" Certified " Milk, 14; " Grade A " (Tuberculin Tested), 25 (including
one bottling licence); " Grade A," 10; " Pasteurised " Milk, 42
(Pasteuriser's Licence 2, Dealer's Licence 40); Supplementary Licences, 4.

* Visits include re-visits also.
Of the 2,647 actual slaughterings, at which one or other of the
Food Inspectors was present, and in connection with which 154
carcases or portions of carcases were condemned, the diseases
necessitating such condemnation were as follows :—
BEASTS :
1 head (tuberculosis).
2 lungs (tuberculosis).
2 lungs (abscess).
1 liver (melanosis).
17 livers (flukes).
SHEEP:
55 lungs (strongylus).
5 lungs (adenoma).
1 liver (adenoma).
PIGS :
1 whole carcase and organs (tuberculosis).
44 heads (tuberculosis).
7 quarters (tuberculosis).
5 plucks (tuberculosis).
2 lungs (tuberculosis).
4 lungs (pleurisy).
1 whole carcase and organs (peritonitis).
5 livers (cirrhosis).
1 head (bruising).