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milk, is outside control in this respect, and the value to be obtained
from the expenses of its examination would appear problematical.
It may be noted that on one occasion only in 1923 were three
bacteriological examinations of milk made in Lambeth.
The cost of each animal inoculation examination, which cannot be
done in the Council's Bacteriological Laboratory, is one guinea. If
more than a few samples are to be examined for the total count, these
could not be carried out without greater facilities in the Council's
Laboratory than at present exist.
The charge made outside for each total count examination would
be half a guinea.
A. G. G. Thompson, m.d.,
Medical Officer of Health.
2nd October, 1933.
As rather more than 90 per cent. of the milk sold in the Borough
is sold as pasteurised under licence, the Council were not prepared
to sanction expenditure for general bacteriological examinations of
milk. On receiving a further communication from the Ministry,
the Council agreed to examinations being made of the small
quantity of ungraded milk sold in the Borough.