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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 1958
[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,
1949-1953
(b) Milk (Special Designation) (Raw Milk) Regulations, 1949-1954.
The following licences were issued in respect of the year 1959 in accordance with these Regulations:-
| Principal licences | Supplementary licences | |
|---|---|---|
| Pasteurised milk | 209 | 24 |
| Sterilised milk | 208 | 28 |
| Tuberculin Tested milk | 130 | 25 |
| Milk distributors on the register and holding the above licences | 229 | 28 |
REGISTRATION OF FOOD PREMISES
The number of premises registered in accordance with Sections 16-18 of the
Food and Drugs Act, 1955, as being used in respect of storage and sale is as
follows:-
Ice-cream 552
Meat and meat products 167
Fish frying 34
FOOD SAMPLING
Chemical Examination
819 samples (125 formal and 694 informal) were taken during 1958 and sent
to the Public Analyst for chemical examination, of which eleven 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 | 113 | - | 101 | 1 |
| Drugs | - | - | 25 | 1 |
| Sausages and meat products | 2 | - | 132 | 2 |
| Spirits | 6 | - | - | - |
| Ice-cream | - | - | 23* | - |
| Others | 4 | - | 402 | 7 |