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St Pancras 1949
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, Metropolitan Borough]
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Milk Supply. The Number of purveyors on the Register at the end of the year were:—
| Dairies | 1ll |
| Itinerant purveyors | 71 |
| For sale of milk in sealed containers only | 207 |
| For sale of cream and artificial cream | 9 |
The Inspectors made 814 visits, and 335 formal samples were taken and submitted for
analysis.
| Main Licences | Supplementary Licences | |
| To sell Pasteurised milk | 69 | 7 |
| To sell Tuberculin Tested milk | 56 | 7 |
| To pasteurise milk | 1 | — |
The Milk (Special Designation) (Pasteurised and Sterilised Milk)
Regulations, 1949.
The Milk (Special Designation) (Raw Milk) Regulations, 1949.
These Regulations re-enact with amendments the provisions of the Milk (Special
Designations) Regulations, 1936 to 1948 (above) and became operative on the 1st October,
1949. They require, inter alia, the licensing of traders selling Sterilised Milk in addition to those
selling Pasteurised and Tuberculin Tested Milks.
The number of licences (additional to those above-mentioned) issued as from the 1st October, 1949, were:—
| Main Licences | Supplementary Licences | |
| To sell Pasteurised milk | 42 | 8 |
| To sell Tuberculin Tested milk | 23 | 8 |
| To sell Sterilised milk | 146 | 13 |
Meat and Other Foods. (i) Public Health (Meat) Regulations, 1924.
| Periodical visits of inspection were made as follows:— | |
| Butchers' Shops and Meat Stalls | 728 |
| Prepared Meat premises | 528 |
| (ii) Inspection of other premises where food is prepared or offered for sale. | |
| The Food Inspectors have continued to keep all such premises under regular and frequent observation, the following inspections being made for this purpose:— | |
| Ice cream | 1,028 |
| Fishmongers | 201 |
| Fried fish | 182 |
| Others | 1,448 |