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Stoke Newington 1938
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Stoke Newington, The Metropolitan Borough]
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V. INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OF FOOD
(a) MILK SUPPLY
Registration.—In accordance with Statutory requirements,
a Register is kept of persons carrying on the trade of dairymen
or purveyors of milk and no person is permitted to carry on this
trade in the Borough unless he is registered.
By Section 2 of the Milk and Dairies (Amendment) Act, 1922,
the Council is empowered to refuse to enter the name of any person
in the Register, or to remove the name of any person from the
Register, if it is shown to the satisfaction of the Council that the
public health is, or is likely to be, endangered by any act or default
of such person in relation to the quality, storage or distribution of
milk.
Milk Premises and Purveyors of Milk:—
| Number of premises where milk is sold bottled and loose | 23 |
| Number of purveyors registered (resident in the Borough) selling intact bottles | 77 |
| Number of purveyors (wholesale and retail) operating in the Borough from premises registered elsewhere | 67 |
| Total | 167 |
The Sanitary Inspectors made 131 visits to dairy premises
during the year, and any sanitary defects found were satisfactorily
remedied.
Milk (Special Designations) Order, 1936.—This Order,
which came into operation on the 1st June, 1936, revoked the
Milk (Special Designations) Orders of 1923 and 1934, and prescribed
the following special designations for milk, viz.:—
Tuberculin Tested.—The conditions for this grade arc substantially
the same as those at present prescribed for Grade "A"
(Tuberculin Tested) milk. It is milk from cows which have passed
a veterinary examination and a tuberculin test, and it may be
bottled on the farm or elsewhere. If raw, the milk must, until the
31st December, 1936, be so produced that a sample taken at any
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