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Dairy Premises.—By the same Act and Part, section 5, power is given to
sanitary authorities to remove from or to refuse to register dairymen whose
premises are unsuitable for the sale of milk thereon. (See Part VI., Legislation.)
Food Effluvia Businesses.—By the same Act and Part, section 9, power is
given to the County Council to make By-laws for regulating the conduct of the
business and the premises and appliance of a vendor of fried fish, a fish curer,
and a rag and bone dealer. The last deals in materials which are foods or
discarded remnants of foods. It is the duty of the Sanitary Authorities to
enforce these By-laws within their respective Boroughs. (See Part VI.,
Legislation.)
§ 2.-UNWHOLESOME FOOD.
Nursery Milks.—As in previous years during the month of July, in accordance
with the resolution of the Council, thirty samples of nursery milks were
obtained and examined bacteriologically and chemically. In each case half-apint
of milk was purchased, and drawn or poured directly into a bottle provided
by the Inspector, such bottle having been previously thoroughly cleansed and
repeatedly rinsed with hot and cold clean water, and a cork tied round the neck
thoroughly sterilised, by high pressure of steam and hot air current, in a
disinfecting chamber and corked in the chamber before being removed.
These bottles after cooling were packed in ice in a portable metal case holding
four bottles at a time, and were carried to the places where specimens of milk
were procured, and when filled and numbered were forthwith taken to the
Laboratories at Guy's Hospital and the bacteriological and chemical examinations
were immediately commenced.
The result of the sampling and examinations are contained in a tabulated
form in the Tables below, lettered “A,” “B,” “C,” and “D.” “A”
shows the price and source of the sample of nursery milk purchased; " B "
results of the bacteriological examinations of the samples; “C,” results of the
chemical examination; and “D” results of further sampling and analysis
under the sale of Food and Drugs Acts of the unsatisfactory samples in
Table “C.”
Dr. Eyre reported with regard to the bacteriological examinations in
Appendix “B” as follows:-
“The milk samples examined in 1908, as compared with those of the previous
“year, are only slightly less ‘dirty’ so far as concerns the volume of apparent
“filth. (See Table I.).”