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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
St Pancras 1955
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, Metropolitan Borough]
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MILK SUPPLY
(a) Milk (Special Designation) (Pasteurised and Sterilised Milk) Regulations, 1919-1953.
(b) Milk (Special Designation) (Raw Milk) Regulations, 19U9-1950.
The following licences were issued in respect of the year 1956 in accordance
with these Regulations.
Principal Supplementary
Licences Licences
Pasteurised milk 195 28
Sterilised milk 207 28
Tuberculin Tested milk 136 27
Milk distributors on
the register and holding
the above licences 225 32
ICE-CREAM
The number of premises registered in accordance with Section 14 of the
Food and Drugs Act, 1938, as being used in respect of the storage and sale of
ice-cream is 498.
FOOD SAMPLING
808 samples (178 formal and 630 informal) were taken during 1955 and sent to the Public Analyst for chemical examination, of which four formal and six informal were found to be unsatisfactory. Details of the nature of all samples are shown in the following table -
| Formal | Informal | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Genuine | Unsatisfactory | Genuine | Unsatisfactory | |
| Milk | 122 | - | 81 | - |
| Drugs | 1 | - | 52 | - |
| Sausages and meat products | 1 | - | 112 | 1 |
| Spirits | 48 | - | - | - |
| Ice-cream | - | - | 37* | - |
| Others | 2 | 4 | 342 | 5 |
The formal samples which were unsatisfactory were dealt with as follows:-
Butter (3 samples) Warning letters sent
Butter pats (sweets) Warning letter sent
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