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supplied in Kensington ; therefore, it will be interesting to note the average composition of the
samples taken during the year. These figures are given in the following table : —
Average composition of formal milk samples taken in 1935.
Months.
Number of
formal
samples
taken.
Average composition of
all samples submitted,
genuine and adulterated.
Average composition
of
genuine samples.
Ministry of Agriculture
standard.
Percentage
of milk fat.
Percentage
of solids
not fat.
Percentage
of milk fat.
Percentage
of solids
not fat.
Percentage
of milk fat.
Percentage
of solids
not fat.
January
18
3.61
8.82
3.61
8.82
3 0
8.5
February
34
3.51
8.83
3.51
8.83
March
18
3.66
8.87
3.66
8.87
April
24
3.33
8.78
3.35
8.78
May
32
3.61
8.84
3.61
8.84
June
18
3.59
8.92
3.59
8.92
July ...
27
3.60
8.82
3.60
8.84
August
24
3.61
8.83
3.61'
8.83
September
36
3.84
8.87
3.84
8.87
Average composition of
normal cow's milk.
October
30
3.79
8.86
3.80
8.98
November
29
3.71
8.90
3.73
8.93
Percentage of
milk fat.
Percentage of
solids not fat.
December
15
3.76
8.81
3.80
8.85
305
3.63
8.84
3.64
8.88
3.7
8.9
The table shows that the average fat and non-fatty solid content for each month of the year
is well above the legal standard, and makes it clear that suspicion should fall on every sample which
at any time of the year shows a fat content as low as three per cent.
Milk and Dairies (Amendment) Act, 1922, and Milk and Dairies Order, 1926.—A summary of
the alterations made in the register of dairymen and dairies dining 1935, and the number
of persons and dairies registered at the end of the year is shown in the following table :—
Purveyors of
milk in sealed
bottles.
Dairymen.
Dairies and
milkshops.
Transfers
9
9
Added to register
27
4
4
Vacated and removed from register
13
13
Dairymen with premises outside the borough added to
register
6
Dairymen with premises outside the borough removed
from the register
On register 1st January, 1935
112
174
149
On register 31st December, 1935
139
171
140
(+) Increase. (—) Decrease
+27
—3
— 9
The total number of inspections of dairies and milkshops in the borough in 1935 was 521.
Milk (Special Designations) Order, 1923.—The council are authorised to grant licences to persons
other than producers to sell milk under special designations. Every licence granted is valid for
a period ending on the 31st December in the year in respect of which it is granted. The Order
lays down a schedule of fees to be paid by applicants for licences.
The licences granted in 1935 were as follows :—
Principal *Supplementary-
licences. licences.
la) Dealers' licence to sell " Certified Milk" 12 1
(b) Dealers' licence to bottle and sell " Grade A (T.T.) Milk "2 —
(c) Dealers' licence to sell " Grade A (T.T.) Milk " 18 2
(d) Dealers' licence to sell " Grade A Milk — 1
(e) Dealers' licence to sell " Grade A (Pasteurised) Milk " 1 —
(f) Dealers' licence to pasteurise milk 1 —
(g) Dealers' licence to sell " Pasteurised Milk " 48 6
• These licences enable the holders to sell graded milks in Kensington from premises situated outside
the borough.