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work, to inculcate into these people a desire to conform to a higher
standard of cleanliness than at present obtains.
Action taken with regard to Dairies, Cowsheds and Milkshops.
The Food Inspector supervises the dairies and milkshops; there
are now no cowsheds in the Borough.
The number of premises in respect of which persons are registered
as purveyors of milk is 89, comprising 43 dairies, 14 bakehouses and
confectioners, 16 restaurants and coffee shops, and 16 general shops.
During the year 210 inspections were made and 11 notices were served.
Milk and Dailies (Amendment) Act, 1922.
This Act postponed, until the 1st September, 1925, the operation
of the Milk and Dairies Consolidation Act, 1915, but, in the meantime,
it. imposed upon Local Authorities the obligation of compiling two new
registers of milk dealers, one wholesale and one retail, and empowered
them, under certain conditions, to refuse to register a retail purveyor of
milk, or to remove a person already registered from the register.
Section 3 authorised the Minister of Health to make Orders and
issue licences in regard to the sale of milk under special designations,
and the Minister accordingly issued the Milk (Special Designations)
Order, 1922, prescribing the terms and conditions subject to which
licences may be granted by Sanitary Authorities to distributors for the
sale of milk as "Certified," "Grade A (Tuberculin Tested)," "Grade A"
or "Pasteurized,"—the Order also provided for the taking of samples of
milk from time to time for submission to bacteriological examination.
An amending Order was subsequently issued suspending the
operation of the Order relating to "Pasteurized" milk until 1st July,
1923, owing to the difficulties which appear to have arisen in regard to
the installation of the necessary plant.
Later, the Milk (Special Designations) Order, 1923, was issued,
which came into operation on July 1st. This Order revoked the earlier
Orders, and embodied certain amendments of their detailed provisions.
The new Order did not, however, alter the general scheme of grading
then in operation, but provided for some relaxation of the conditions
under which licences may be granted for the sale of "Grade A" milk,
and "Pasteurised" milk.