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In addition to the milks analysed under the Food and
Drugs Act, fifty-nine were submitted to the phosphatase
test in order to ascertain whether they had been properly
pasteurised. Nineteen failed to pass the test and two
reached the limiting value.
All the nineteen samples upon which adverse reports were
received were not submitted as "pasteurised " milk.
This test is a new one and certain samples to which raw
milk had been purposely added were prepared in order to
check the efficiency of the test. Other samples which had
only been " flashed " were also submitted in order to
ascertain whether the test was capable of differentiating
between milks which had been treated by the different
processes.
Of the samples reported to show ' some error in technique
" or " improperly pasteurised," nine were sold as
pasteurised, two were from plants outside the Borough and
seven were from Hammersmith dairymen. Of the latter,
four were from the plant of one dairyman who was prosecuted
and convicted.
Of the samples actually sold as " pasteurised," five were
reported as grossly under heated. Four of these were from
plants outside the Borough and one only from a Hammersmith
dairy.
The Council will doubtless be aware that this Borough
was among the first of the authorities to adopt the phospha-