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The quantity of milk filled into churns or bottles in dairies other than
pasteurising dairies in the Borough is now estimated to be no more than fifty to
sixty gallons per day. For some time now the smaller dairymen have been reducing
the quantity of milk handled on their premises and concentrating more on milk
received in sealed bottles. No replacement has been made of stocks of bottles or
other accessories as they become defective. These dairymen have thus prepared
themselves for the operation of the Second Schedule, Part I, paragraph 7, of the
Milk (Special Designation) (Pasteurised and Sterilised Milk) Regulations 1949,
which it is anticipated will be introduced in October of next year, and the
necessary changes may be made with a minimum of inconvenience and negligible
expense to the dairymen concerned.
Although a large number of shop keepers are registered to sell milk, the
greater proportion of milk supplied to domestic consumers is delivered to the
door through eighteen of the registered distributors.
Two dairies in the Borough pasteurise over 189,000 gallons of milk per week:
in the same period over three-quarters of a million bottles are filled. Milk
produced from these dairies is distributed over some thirty to forty districts
in the Greater London area. The Council is responsible for licensing and supervising
the pasteurising process.
Samples of milk have been taken from dairies, shops and deliverymen for the
purpose of checking quality, purity and bacteriological cleanliness. Samples
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