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The milk supply of every school in the borough is sampled
at least once a quarter, bacteriological and chemical examinations
being made alternately. These samples are included in the
numbers, given above and all were found to be genuine. In
addition samples have also been taken from St. Olave's Hospital
and South Wharf Small-Pox Receiving Station.
With regard to the designated milks mentioned above,
14 samples were found to be below standard. Of these only one
sample showed a bacterial count above standard, the defect
in the other cases being the presence of B.Coli.
In every case where a sample has failed to reach the standard
prescribed, I have made personal enquiries of the bottler and if
necessary the actual farmer has been approached. In one or two
cases the source of supply has been changed as a result of these
enquiries. As will be seen from the figures given on page 73,
57 licences were granted during the year under the Milk (Special
Designations) Order, 1923. The premises of these licensees are
kept under continuous observation and on the whole the standard
maintained is high. In one case the results of a sample showed
so small a bacterial count that it appeared to me that the bacteriological
technique must be at fault. After a somewhat prolonged
inquiry which included a visit to the bottling premises by myself
and our bacteriologist and an interview with the bacteriologist of
the firm, we could find no fault with the process nor with our
own bacteriological technique. Everything that we can do is
being done in the borough to encourage the consumption of
tuberculin tested milk, and on the whole our milksellers, par-ticularly
the bottlers of designated milk, make real efforts to