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Coulsdon and Purley 1963

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Coulsdon]

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Cafes and Restaurant35
Grocers79
Chemists20
Licensed premises35
Hospitals, Nursing Homes, Guest Houses Hotels21
Canteens, Clubs, Halls, etc53
Schools45

Twelve shops other than butchers and one baker's premises
are registered for the preparation of preserved meat, etc., and all
the fish friers' premises are similarly registered in respect of fish
frying.
Milk. The Milk & Dairies (General) Regulations, 1959.
Apart from small quantities bottled on the farms, milk sold
in the larger Urban areas is collected in the distant producing areas
and transported in bulk to large processing plants situate in the
consuming centres where it is pasteurised or sterilised and bottled
for sale by a comparatively few large dairy companies.
Residents in this district rely in the main on these sources
of supply, there being only one registered dairy now operating in
the Council's area.
General control by the Department is exercised under the
above regulations and only pasteurised, tuberculin tested or
sterilised milk can be sold in the district as a result of a Special
Designations Order made in 1951.
A complaint of a dirty milk bottle was passed to the
Authority in whose area the milk was bottled.
The entries in the register, which has to be kept, were as
follows:—
Distributors of Milk in the District 18
Premises registered as Dairies 1
Under the Milk (Special Designation) Regulations, 1960, the
following licences to sell milk continued in force during the year.
Dealer's Pre-packed Licences 14
Dealer's (Pasteuriser's) Licence 1
Dealer's (Tuberculine Tested) Licence 1
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