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INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION
OF FOOD.
(a) MILK SUPPLY.
The Dairies have been systematically inspected during the year.
Milk and Dairies Order, 1926.
1. Registration.—It is required (Sect. 6) that there be
registered, not only premises used as a dairy and situated within the
Borough, but also all who purvey milk within the Borough, including
sellers of milk received by them in sealed bottles and sold intact
(whose premises need not be registered) and those who purvey milk
from premises registered by other Local Authorities.
Number of premises registered, where milk is bottled
and sold loose 16
Number of premises registered, where milk is sold
loose only 13
Number of purveyors registered (resident in the
Borough), selling intact bottles 26
Number of purveyors operating in the Borough from
premises registered elsewhere 8
Total 63
2. Supervision of the Conduct of Dairymen's
Businesses.
1. Premises where milk is bottled require most supervision,
else the procedure may result in worse contamination than
if it be sold loose over the counter or from the roundsman's churn.
In most cases the bottles are cleansed in sculleries or other
adapted premises behind or in the basement of the shop where the