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attending their schools should be supplied with milk at a reduced price
to be drunk as a beverage by children in the schools. Children coming
within the scheme receive one-third of a pint of milk daily. Although
this new departure was undertaken by the London County Council,
and relates to children of school age, its bearing upon health is of
sufficient importance to merit reference in the Report of a Borough
Medical Officer of Health.
The Borough Medical Officers of Health co-operated with the
County Medical Officer of Health in this matter, and it has been
arranged that all milk supplied to Hampstead scholars under the
scheme should be pasteurised and should comply with the requirements
of the Milk (Special Designations) Order, 1923. So far as Hampstead
is concerned, this brings the grade of milk supplied, i.e.,
Pasteurised, into conformity with that supplied to mothers and
children under the Maternity and Child Welfare Act, 1918.
(i) Milk and Dairies (Consolidation) Act, 1915.
Milk and Dairies Order, 1926.
The number of premises in respect of which persons are registered
as purveyors of milk is 84. During the year, 196 inspections
were made and 25 notices were served.
There were 105 milk samples taken under the Food and Drugs
(Adulteration) Act, and of these, 5 were unsatisfactory. The average
composition of the milk samples examined was
Total milk solids 12.28 per cent.
Fat 3.51 „
Solids not fat 8.77 „
Two samples of milk were taken in course of delivery from a
Buckinghamshire farmer to a certain local purveyor of milk—one from
the morning milking, and one from the evening milking. One was
found to contain added water to the extent of 5 per cent., and the
other was 3 per cent, deficient in milk fat. On instruction of the
Public Health Committee a warning letter was addressed to the vendor.
The facts were also communicated to the Buckingham County Medical
Officer of Health. Samples were thereupon taken from the cows
by the Buckinghamshire County authority and showed deficiency in
non-fatty solids.