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34 REPORT OF THE MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH FOR 1963
Milk Supply
The Milk and Dairies General Regulations, 1959
These Regulations came into force on 8th March, 1959, and
require local authorities to keep a register of all persons carrying on
the trade of distributor in their district and of all premises within
their district which are used as dairies, not being dairy farms.
During the year 21 applications were received from persons to be
registered as distributors of milk. In each case the certificate of
registration was granted. Eighteen notices of cancellation of
registration were received. At the end of the year there were 242
persons on the register. 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
Two hundred and twenty-one samples of milk were submitted for
analysis. Of these 33 were samples of Channel Island and South
Devon milks with an average fat content of 4.55 per cent. The
remaining 188 samples had an average fat content of 3.70 per cent.
The Milk (Special Designation) Regulations, 1960
These Regulations which came into force on 1st October, 1960,
provide for the issue of Dealer's (Prepacked Milk) Licences for the
sale of milk under any of the following designations :
" Pasteurized "
" Sterilized "
" Tuberculin Tested "
where milk is obtained by the dealer in the container in which it is
to be supplied to the consumer or is pasteurized or sterilized by
the dealer.

A person who holds a "Tuberculin Tested" licence and a
" Pasteurized " or " Sterilized " licence may use the designations
" Tuberculin Tested (Pasteurised)" or " Tuberculin Tested (Sterilized)
" as the case may be.