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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Finsbury 1951

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Finsbury Borough]

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Table: All milk now sold for consumption in Finsbury is milk that bears one or other of the permitted Designations, that is, Tuberculin Tested, Pasteurised or Sterilised.

All milk now sold for consumption in Finsbury is milk that bears one or other of the permitted Designations, that is, Tuberculin Tested, Pasteurised or Sterilised.

1.Dairies :
No. on register at end of 195112
2.Distributors :
No. on register on 1st January, 1951112
No. of Transfers approved during 19515
No. of new applications received and approved9
The only cancellations were those resulting from transfers.
3-Designated Milk :
No. of licences issued :—
Dealers in T.T. Milk50supplementary18
Dealers in Pasteurised Milk71supplementary19
Dealers in Sterilised Milk79supplementary20
4-Quality of Milk :
No. of samples submitted to Public Analyst196
No. of these reported as adulterated4
The average fat content of the milk samples was 3.4 per cent.
The average non-fatty solids content was 8.78 per cent.
5-The total number of visits paid to milk premises was 315
Ice-Cream.
Number of premises registered for manufacture24
Number of premises registered for storage and sale93

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The number of premises for the manufacture of Ice-Cream is
one less than in 1950. This one was removed as the premises concerned
had been converted for the use of an entirely different trade. 11
additional premises were registered during the year for storage and
sale of ice-cream.
The Food Standards (Ice-Cream) Order, 1951, came into
operation in March, prescribing for the first time minimum standards
of composition for Ice-Cream. Ice-Cream must now contain not less
than 5 per cent, fat, 10 per cent, sugar, and 7½ per cent, milk solids
other than fat, with slight variations for ice-cream containing fruit
and for Kosha ice-cream.