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Milk Supply.
All domestic supplies of milk are sold in sealed bottles or cartons bearing
a designation. Except for very small quantities of raw Tuberculin Tested milk
from Attested herds, all milk is heat treated.
The Minister of Pood appointed the 1st October, 1954, as the date from which
it was to be compulsory to use caps and covers overlapping the lips of containers
of pasteurised milk. Prom the same date milk pasteurisers were required to put
milk which was pasteurised into the containers in which it is to be delivered to
the consumer at the premises at which it is pasteurised. Thus the practice carried
out by some dairymen of purchasing pasteurised milk in bulk and bottling it on
their own premises is now prohibited.
Local dairymen had prepared themselves for the operation of this regulation
and the change was made without inconvenience.
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 seventeen 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. One of the dairies was sold during the year and the
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