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(5) Pasteurised Milk is any milk which has been pasteurised by the same
process as is required for Grade A (Pasteurised). The bacteriological condition
for this grade of milk is that it must not contain more than 100,000 bacteria
per c.c. There is no test for coliform bacillus and the milk need not be sold in
bottles.
During the year 1924 licences available up to the 31st December, 1924, for the
sale of designated milk in the Borough were issued as follows: —
Certified Milk 4
Grade A (Tuberculin Tested) 1
Up to the date of preparation of this report licences for the year 1925 have
been issued as follows: —
Certified Milk 4
Grade A (Tuberculin Tested) 3
Grade A 1
Pasteurised 1
The value of the Order lies to a considerable extent in its educational effects;
the existence of such arrangements shows milk producers that clean milk can be
produced on farms (if they like they can learn how to produce clean milk themselves)
and that medical opinion has been able to convince the representatives of
the public of the importance of keeping milk as free as possible from bacteria, and
above all from tubercle bacilli.
Public Health (Milk and Cream) Regulations, 1912 and 1917.
The Public Health Milk and Cream) Regulations, 1912-1917, were enforced in the
Borough throughout the year.
Two hundred and twenty-six samples of milk were examined; none was found to
contain preservative; 15 samples of cream were examined 3 of which were found to
contain preservative, viz., boric acid to the extent of 0'062, 0.236 and 0'336 per cent. by
weight respectively. Communications were in each case sent to the vendor, and in
two the vendors were interviewed by the Public Health Committee ; the explanations
submitted were considered to be satisfactory, and no further action was taken.
Twenty five s Samples of preserved cream were examined and found to be in
accordance with the Regulations, the statement on the labels as to the amount of
preservative being in each case correct. In all the samples of preserved cream the fat
exceeded 35 per cent. No contravention of the Regulations, other than those
mentioned above, was discovered during the year.
Cream—Sale in Unsuitable Premises.
During the year attention was directed to certain premises used as a depot
for the storage and sale of cream. On inspection it was found that the premises,
formerly a stable, were situated in a mews and that the manure heap of an
adjoining stable was immediately adjacent to the entrance to the cream store, and
that this manure was trampled into the ex-stable, so that it could be found near the
open chum; cream was delivered to the depot in ordinary milk churns and was
sent out from the depot in small lever lid tins.