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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Bermondsey 1943
Report on the sanitary condition of the Borough of Bermondsey for the year 1943
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MILK PREMISES.
MILK AND DAIRIES (AMENDMENT) ACT, 1922.
FOOD AND DRUGS ACT, 1938.
Two milk sellers were registered under the above Acts during
1943, and two were removed from the Register, making a total of
135 milk sellers on the Register at the end of the year under report.
MILK (SPECIAL DESIGNATIONS) ORDER, 1936. During the year under report the following licences were granted:— Dealers' Licences.
| To sell Tuberculin Tested Milk | 10 |
| To sell Pasteurised Milk | 27 |
| Supplementary Licences. | |
| To sell Pasteurised Milk | 11 |
| To sell Tuberculin Tested Milk | 6 |
All premises used for the sale of milk are regularly inspected to
ensure that the standard of cleanliness laid down is maintained.
MILK SAMPLING.
Samples of milk, both for bacteriological and chemical examination,
are taken from milksellers, and special arrangements are made for the
sampling of the milk supplied to all schools in the borough. The total
number of samples submitted for analysis during 1943 was 400, of
which number 29 were taken from schools.
For Chemical (i.e., Fat and non-Fatty Solids) Examination.
| Liquid Milk, undesignated | 242 |
| Sterilized Milk | 92 |
| Pasteurised Milk (informal) | 30 |
| Condensed Milk (informal) | 9 |
| 373 |
For Bacteriological Examination.
| Pasteurised Milk (from schools) | 29 |
| Pasteurised Milk (other than from schools) | 4 |
| For tubercle bacilli | 2 |
| For brucella abortus | 1 |
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Thirty-one premises were entered on the Council's list for the
year under report.
As a result of samples being purchased, it was found that
eight contraventions of the Act occurred, poisons being sold wrongly
by unlisted vendors. Warnings were given in all cases.