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Bermondsey 1951
Report on the sanitary condition of the Borough of Bermondsey for the year 1951
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MILK (SPECIAL DESIGNATION) (RAW MILK) REGULATION'S, 1949.
MILK (SPECLAL DESIGNATION) (PASTEURISED AND STERILISED)
REGULATIONS, 1949.
MILK (SPECIAL DESIGNATIONS) REGULATIONS, 1949.
During the year under report the following licences were granted:—
Dealers' Licences.
| To sell Tuberculin Tested Milk | 26 |
| To sell Pasteurised Milk | 57 |
| To sell Sterilised Milk | 99 |
Supplementary Licences.
| To sell Pasteurised Milk | 15 |
| To sell Tuberculin Tested Milk | 16 |
| To sell Sterilised Milk | 18 |
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 1951 was 728, of
which number 103 were taken from schools.
For Chemical (i.e., Fat and non-Fatty Solids) Analysis.
| Liquid Milk, undesignated | 34 |
| Sterilised Milk | 131 |
| Pasteurised Milk | 210 |
| Condensed Milk | 18 |
| Tuberculin Tested | – |
| Tuberculin Tested (Pasteurised) | 44 |
| Channel Islands Milk | 36 |
| South Devon Milk | 15 |
| 488 |
For Bacteriological Examination.
| For tubercle bacilli | 8 |
| For brucella abortus | 4 |
| 12 |
For Examination under Milk (Special Designations) Regulations
| Pasteurised Milk (from schools) | 108 |
| Pasteurised Milk (other than from schools) | 48 |
| Tuberculin Tested | – |
| Tuberculin Tested (Pasteurised) | 31 |
| Heat Treated | – |
| Sterilised Milk | 41 |
| 228 |
(40)