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for samples to be taken for these purposes. Where licences to
bottle Grade A (Tuberculin Tested) or Grade A milk are issued
by the Council special attention should be paid to the
bacteriological condition of the milk.
I am to express the Minister's appreciation of the assistance
which was rendered to his officers during the course of the
survey.
I am, Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
J. N. Dark.
The Town Clerk,
Lambeth Town Hall,
Brixton Hill, S.W.2.
The Minister has on three previous occasions suggested the
appointment of an assistant Medical Officer to exercise detailed
control over the Maternity and Child Welfare section of the public
health services and also to act as medical officer of the Maternity
Home. The Council, however, still adheres to its original conclusion
of 1923, that having regard to the large number of Medical
Officers of high qualifications and experience attached to the
various Child Welfare Centres such an appointment is not essential
in order to secure adequate medical supervision of the Maternity
and Child Welfare Scheme. The suggestion of the Minister,
however, appears to be directed to detailed administrative, rather
than to medical, supervision.
With regard to the penultimate paragraph of the letter, the
following report was drawn up at the request of the Public Health
Committee.
Report.
The Milk and Dairies Act, 1915, and the Acts amending it,
together with the Milk (Special Designations) Order, 1923, have
resulted in a marked improvement in the quality of the milk supply,
particularly in London. So much so that in Lambeth the bulk of
the wet milk retailed is graded according to the Order of 1923, only
a small proportion being ungraded.