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The Milk and Dairies Order, 1926 came into operation on the
1st October, 1926. By order of the Council a copy was sent to every
person on the Register, and the Inspector has visited all premises and
persons concerned and explained their obligations under the Order.
The Register has been revised. There are no cowkeepers in the
Borough. No case occurred in which milk acted as a vehicle of
infection. In two cases persons delivering milk were warned that
bottles must not be filled in the street.
The Milk and Dairies Consolidation Act, 1925. Under the
provisions of this Act many notices were received by the Food and
Drugs Inspectors demanding that samples should be taken in course of
delivery to retailers, but, acting on instructions, the Inspectors did not
find it necessary to take any such samples in course of delivery because
the Public Analyst was able to inform them within a reasonable time
that the original samples, i.e., those purchased from the retailers, were
genuine. Two requests were received from other local authorities for
milk to be sampled in course of delivery. No samples were taken
by other authorities at our request.
(b) Meat. Action taken with regard to Meat and other foods,
slaughterhouses, etc.

The number of butchers' stalls has been reduced from 7 to 4, while
there is still one bacon stall.
Last year I reported that these Regulations caused an immense
amount of work; it is satisfactory to record that this work, together
with the persuasive effect of four prosecutions, has extinguished trestles
and boards in front of shop windows. The great majority of butchers