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churns must be marked with name and address of owner. The lids must
effect a close seal. No person, except under official authority, shall open
any churn, vessel or other receptacle containing milk, or transfer milk
from one vessel to another, in any railway van or on any railway station,
but the article does not prohibit the purchaser, or his agent, from opening
any churn, &c., or transferring the milk to any other vessel when found
necessary for the purpose of checking and sampling the milk. Every
person delivering milk in bottles shall cause such bottles to be filled and
closed on registered premises, and no person must remove or tamper with
the disc or other device used for closing a bottle after it has left such
premises and before delivery to the customer.
A circular setting out in brief form the requirements of the Order
was distributed to all persons selling milk to the public.
As a result of the intelligent interest displayed by the public in milk,
dairying is now coming to be regarded as a scientific avocation, and
there has now come into existence the National Institute for Research
in Dairying, situated at Shinfield, Reading. The Ministry of Agriculture
have urged all local authorities to take advantage of the facilities offered,
and to permit their sanitary inspectors to join the courses of instruction at
the Institute. The chief subjects for study are those concerned with the
preparation of graded milk (certified, &c.). The Council have instructed
one of their Food Inspectors to attend a course of the lectures and
instruction.
The Milk and Dairies Order 1926, and
Dairies, Cowsheds and Milkshops Orders, 1885 to 1899.
Registration of Dairymen, etc.—At the end of the year the register
contained the names of 496 persons who were engaged in the selling
of milk, either in or from shops, and including those itinerant vendors
who have neither shops nor stores, but sell milk from street barrows.
Eleven new applications to be registered during the year were received.
Of those, six concerned the transfer of business to another proprietor,
while the premises continued to be used for the same purpose. Two
applications by itinerant vendors were refused, as the reports concerning
them were unsatisfactory.
One name was removed from the register by request.
The sanitary inspectors paid 851 visits to premises in which milk is
sold, but no defects were found which requited the service of a notice.