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Note : The classification of milk according to quality is based on the butter fat content, the
standards adopted being :—
3*8 per cent, butter fat and over—" Good."
Over 3-4 per cent, but under 3-8 per cent.—" Fair."
Over 3 per cent, but under 3*4 per cent.—" Poor."
It will be seen that the second quarter of the year produced the largest number of samples
of poor milk and the smallest number of good milk, whilst the reverse took place in the fourth quarter.
This experience is common throughout the country.

Under the Milk and Dairies (Amendment) Act, 1922, a local authority may refuse to register
a person or may remove a person's name from the register of purveyors of milk if, in their opinion,
the sale of milk by him is likely to endanger the public health. During the year one application
for registration was refused. The applicant, who desired to trade in Kensington from premises
outside, had previously been registered as a purveyor of milk within the borough. His methods
of distribution and his record were equally unsatisfactory, and a notice was served under section
2 of the act requiring him to appear before the council to show cause why they should not refuse
to register him. The applicant failed to appear, and the necessary resolution refusing registration
was passed in his absence.
Routine inspections of all premises on the council's register of dairies are made from time to
time, and the number of such inspections made during the year was 565.
Milk (Special Designations) Orders, 1923 and 1936.—On the 1st June the Milk (Special
Designations) Order, 1936, came into operation. This order revokes the earlier one and reduces
the number of designated milks to three, namely, Tuberculin Tested, Accredited and Pasteurised.
Tuberculin Tested.—The conditions for this grade are substantially the same as those formerly
prescribed for Grade A (Tuberculin Tested) milk. It is raw milk from cows which have passed
a veterinary examination and a tuberculin test, and it may be bottled on the farm or at a licensed
bottling establishment. Until the 31st December, 1936, a sample of this milk taken at any time
before delivery to the consumer was required to contain not more than 200,000 bacteria per millilitre
and no bacillus cohform in one-hundredth of a millilitre. After the date mentioned a prescribed
methylene blue reduction test for cleanliness is substituted for the bacteria plate test. The milk
may be pasteurised, in which case it must be described as Tuberculin Tested Milk (Pasteurised),
and must not contain more than 30,000 bacteria per millilitre. If it is bottled on the farm the
word " Certified " may be added to its designation.
Accredited.—The conditions for this grade are similar to those prescribed in the order of 1923
for Grade A milk. It is raw milk from cows which have passed a veterinary examination, and
may be bottled on the farm or at a licensed bottling establishment. It must satisfy the same
bacteriological tests as are prescribed for raw Tuberculin Tested milk.