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During the year 78 samples of designated pasteurised milk
were procured from dealers specially licensed under the Order,
for bacteriological examination.
Twelve of these samples were found not to comply with the
standard prescribed. In each case where an unsatisfactory result
was obtained further investigations were made to trace and to
eliminate as far as could be possible unsatisfactory methods in
the processing and handling of the supply. This has led to various
improvements being effected.
Arrangements were made during the year for copies of the
results of the examinations of milk supplied in other areas, but
pasteurised in this Borough, and undertaken by other authorities
to be furnished to this Department. This has enabled a better
check to be maintained on the bacterial purity of all the milk
pasteurised in the Borough.
ICE-CREAM.
There were 135 vendors of ice-cream on the Register at the
end of the year.
Two hundred and twenty-two visits of inspection were made
and five notices served for cleansing and other purposes.
The number of premises at which ice-cream is sold in wrapped
portions of various values is now 56. This ice-cream is purchased
by the retailer already wrapped by the manufacturers, and affords
a very cleanly method of dealing in ice-cream.
Many of the retailers in this Borough, still manufacturing their
own ice-cream, have equipped themselves with electrical freezers.
Compared with the old method of "ice-tub" freezing, these
electrical freezers are a marked improvement. The "custard"
or "cold-mix" (a method of making "custard" without having
to boil the mixture) is placed into a container which is put into
a totally enclosed apparatus, and without further handling is
frozen into ice-cream.
The working of these freezers is quite simple, and, as far as
the user is concerned, there is no complicated mechanism to
receive attention and the cleansing is an easy matter.