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28 Report of the Medical Officer of Health for 1950
MILK SUPPLY
The Milk and Dairies Regulations, 1949
These Regulations came into force on 1st October, 1949, and
require local authorities to keep a register of all persons carrying
on the trade of distributor in their district and of all premises
within their district which are used as dairies, not being dairy
farms.
During the year 49 applications have been received from
persons to be registered as distributors of milk. In each case the
certificate of registration was granted. Fourteen notices of cancellation
of registration have been received. At the end of the
year there were 190 persons on the register, including 16 persons
with premises outside the Borough. The number of dairies on thp
register at the end of the year was 30.
The bulk of the milk sold by retail within the Borough is
sent out in bottles filled in properly constructed dairies and its
quality is good.
Food and Drugs Act, 1938
Six hundred and eighty-five samples of milk were submitted
for analysis. All of these were reported as genuine, with an average
fat content of 3.6 per cent.
The Milk (Special Designation) (Raw Milk) Regulations, 1949-50,
and The Milk (Special Designation) (Pasteurised and Sterilised
Milk) Regulations, 1949-50
The regulations came into force on 1st October, 1949, and
replace The Milk (Special Designations) Regulations, 1936 to 1948.
They provide for the issue of licences to persons who sell milk
under any of the following designations:
"Accredited,"
"Pasteurised,"
"Sterilised,"
"Tuberculin Tested."
The following licences for the sale of milk under these designations
were granted during the year:
Accredited Nil
Pasteurised 184
Sterilised 248
Tuberculin Tested 144
Total 576