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to ascertain what is done with the residue after the milk has been passed through
the cleansers. It was found in one case that this residue is at once destroyed by
burning in a furnace used in connection with a pasteurising plant, in all other cases
it is at once washed down the drains.
Milk and Dairies Order, 1926.
Information was received respecting the use by a Holborn milk seller of churns
which did not comply with the provisions of the above Order. On inspection it
was found that of nearly 100 churns used by the trader, two were fitted with
sunken lids permitting contamination of the contents of the churns. The use of
both churns was at once discontinued, and ultimately these churns were scrapped.
The Milk (Special Designations) Order, 1923.
During the year 1931 licences available up to the 31st December, 1931, for the
sale of designated milk in the Borough were issued as follows: —
Certified Milk 2
Grade A (Tuberculin Tested) 5
Pasteurised 7
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Up to the date of preparation of this report licences for the year 1932 have
been issued as follows: —
Certified Milk 2
Grade A (Tuberculin Tested) 3
Pasteurised 5
Supplementary—
Grade A (T.T.) 1
Pasteurised 3
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Public Health (Dried Milk) Regulations, 1923.
Very few brands of dried milk are sold in the Borough. Five samples,
covering those generally used, were obtained during the year, and found to comply
with the Regulations which are generally similar to those with regard to condensed
milk.
Margarine.
There are five registered dealers in the Borough.
Margarine is one of the chief articles of fatty food eaten by the poorer part of the
community; it is therefore highly desirable that this substitute for butter should be brought
up to the same standard of vitamin potency as butter. Until this is done the menace of
health arising from the continual and ever increasing substitution of butter by margarine
will remain serious.