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Borough must be registered as a Distributor. The number of
Distributors registered at the end of the year was 98, a decrease
of 14 from 1962.
On 66 occasions the premises of distributors and dairies were
visited other than for sampling purposes, and defects, when detected
were remedied as and when necessary.
The Milk (Special Designation) Regulations, 1960.—These
regulations, operative from the 1st October, 1960, replaced and
consolidated, with amendments, The Milk (Special Designation)
(Raw Milk) Regulations, 1949-1954 and the Milk (Special Designation)
(Pateurised and Sterilised Milk) Regulations, 1949-1953.
All milk now sold in the Borough has been Sterilised, Pasteurised
or Tuberculin Tested and the use of these Special Designations in
relation to the sale of milk is prohibited under the above Regulations
unless the distributor is licensed for the use of same.
With the coming into force of the new Regulations, the granting
of Supplementary Licences (issued to firms who sold within the
Borough but whose premises were outside) has been discontinued
and, in accordance with these Regulations, licences (which pre-
viously were annually renewed) have a fixed five year period at
the end of which they become renewable for a further five years.
No milk processing plants are located in the Borough and all
licences granted were in relation to milk obtained in pre-packed
form for sale to the general public. The following licences had
been granted and were in force on the 31st December, 1963 :—
Licences In Operation
issued 31.12.63
Distribution of Sterilised Milk 8 93
„ „ Pasteurised Milk 6 67
„ „ Tuberculin Tested 3 45
Sampling.—Under provisions of the Third Schedule to the
above-mentioned Regulations, Methylene Blue and Phosphatase
tests are prescribed, the former for assessing the "keeping" qualities
of milk, and the latter for estimating the efficiency of pasteurisation.
In addition, a Turbidity test is also prescribed for ascertaining the
effectiveness of the heat treatment of Sterilised milk and, with
regard to Tuberculin Tested Milk, the new Regulations have introduced
a further test—the clot-on-boiling test.
During the year, 24 samples of milk consisting of 15 Pasteurised,
8 T.T. Pasteurised and 1 Sterilized were examined in accordance
with the prescribed tests. All proved to be satisfactory.