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32 REPORT OF THE MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH FOR 1959
During the year 32 applications were received from persons to
be registered as distributors of milk. In each case the certificate
of registration was granted. Forty-two notices of cancellation of
registration were received. At the end of the year there were 221
persons on the register, including 20 persons with premises outside
the Borough. There were two dairies on the register at the end of the
year.
The bulk of the milk sold by retail within the Borough is sent out
in bottles filled in properly constructed dairies and its quality is
good.
Food and Drugs Act, 1955
Three hundred and fifteen samples of milk were submitted for
analysis. Of these 32 were samples of Channel Island and South
Devon milks with an average fat content of 4.42 per cent. The
remaining 283 samples had an average fat content of 3.59 per cent.
The Milk (Special Designation) (Raw Milk) Regulations, 1949-1954,
and the Milk (Special Designation) (Pasteurized and Sterilized Milk)
Regulations, 1949-1953.
These regulations, which came into force on 1st October, 1949,
provide for the issue of licences to persons who sell milk under any
of the following designations:
"Pasteurized"
"Sterilized"
"Tuberculin Tested"

Two distributors’ (pasteurizers’) licences were granted during the
year and are included in the above figures.
A person who holds a "Tuberculin Tested" licence and a
"Pasteurized" or "Sterilized" licence may use the designations
"Tuberculin Tested (Pasteurized)" or "Tuberculin Tested (Sterilized)"
as the case may be.