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Section C.
FOOD.
Milk Supply.
The number of premises in respect of which persons are registered
as purveyors of milk is 86, comprising 42 dairies, 18 bakehouses and
confectioners, 13 restaurants and coffee shops, and 13 general shops.
Daring the year 271 inspections were made and 8 notices were
served.
Milk.
On 22nd March the Milk (England and Wales) Order, 1921, was
issued by the Food Controller, and on 24th March the Local Authorities
(Milk) Order, 1921, was issued by the Ministry of Health. These
Orders had reference to the control of the sale of "Grade A (Certified)"
or "Grade A" milk, which may not be sold except under and in accordance
with a licence granted by or under the Ministry of Health. The
addition of colouring matter or water to milk or cream, and the sale of
milk or cream to which colouring matter or water had been added, was
also prohibited. By the Board of Trade's Order, of 24th June, the
definition of milk was extended so as to include "skimmed" and
"separated" milk in the term "milk" so far as the prohibition of the
addition of colouring matter is concerned.
"Grade A (Certified)" or "Grade A" milk must be produced
under specially clean and hygienic conditions from a herd free from
tuberculosis, and certain conditions governing its purity, freedom from
pollution, etc., are necessary to be complied with.
Although considerably belated and limited in its scope, this attempt
to stop the sale of milk infected with the tubercle bacillus, is very
welcome. It was as long ago as February, 1907, that the second
interim report of the Royal Commission on Tuberculosis was issued, in
which it was stated, inter alia : —
"There can be no doubt but that in a certain number of cases the
tuberculosis occurring in the human subject, especially in children, is the
direct result of the introduction into the human body of the bacillus of
bovine tuberculosis; and there also can be no doubt that in the majority at
least of these cases the bacillus is introduced through cows' milk. Cows'