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INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OF FOOD.
Milk Supply.
Dairies and Milkshops.—The number of premises registered
under the provisions of the Milk and Dairies Order, 1926, is 134,
and 328 inspections of these premises were made during the year.
In addition, 104 retailers were registered for the sale of milk in
bottles or cartons, it being a condition that the milk is not to be sold
otherwise than in the closed and unopened receptacles in which it
was delivered to the premises.
Cowhouses.—There is now only one licensed cowhouse in the
Borough.
Milk (Special Designations) Order, 1923.—Licences for the
production or sale of milk under the designations provided by the
above-named Order were issued for the year 1933, as follows:—
Premises licensed to Pasteurise 2
Retail premises licensed to sell Certified Milk 8
,, ,, ,, ,, Grade A (Tuberculin Tested) Milk 9
,, Grade A Milk 3
,, ,, ,, Pasteurised Milk 14
Supplementary Licences to sell Pasteurised Milk 1
Bacteriological Examination of Milk.—Forty- one samples of
milk were submitted to bacteriological examination: —
Of this number, seven were taken from retailers in the Borough
in the ordinary course of delivery to householders. Four of the
samples were found to contain the coliform bacillus.
Eleven samples were taken on delivery at the London County
Council Institutions situated in the Borough, viz., Grove Park
Hospital, Park Hospital, Ladywell Institution and Lewisham
Hospital. Three of these samples contained the coliform bacillus.
Twenty-three samples of milk sold under the designations,
"Certified" and "Grade 'A' (Tuberculin Tested)," were taken from
specified retailers at the request of the Ministry of Health, the
authority which is responsible for the issue of licences to producers
of milk. All these samples were found to comply with the standard
laid down in the Milk (Special Designations) Order, 1923.