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SUMMARY.
Total Fines £24 0s. 0d. Total Costs £11 10s. 0d.
milk (special designations) order, 1936.
The above-mentioned Order came into operation on the 1st June, 1936, and replaced
the old designations by " Tuberculin Tested," " Accredited " and " Pasteurised." The
designations " Tuberculin Tested" (certified or pasteurised, as the case may be) and
" Accredited " (farm bottled) may be used in addition.
Bacterial counts for testing Tuberculin Tested and Accredited milks give place to the
Methylene Blue Reduction Test.
Pasteurised milk must contain less than 100,000 organisms per millilitre at any time
before delivery to the consumer.
In order that traders already licensed in the City under the old Order should be aware
of the alterations, a formal intimation of such alterations was forwarded to each.
During 1936 nine traders were licensed under the revoked Orders of 1923 and 1934.
bacteriological and chemical examination of milk.
samples collected at railway stations.
In accordance with the practice instituted in 1904, a further series of samples of milk
arriving in the City of London from the country was collected at Liverpool Street Station,
and submitted to Dr. Garrod, the City Bacteriologist, for bacteriological examination and
investigation as to the presence of dirt. A duplicate of each sample was submitted to
Mr. A. J. C. Lickorish, the Public Analyst, for chemical examination.
In all, 24 samples were taken and the farms from which they were despatched were
situated in the following counties :—
Suffolk 8
Herts. 16
Dr. Garrod reports that, from the results of his examination, two samples of milk,
both from the same farm, suggested the possibility of the presence of tuberculous bacillus.
I accordingly communicated with the medical officer of health for the county of the area
in which this farm was situated and, in reply, received a report of which the following is
an extract :—
" Four bulk samples and one individual sample were taken from the herd in question and, on
biological examination, one bulk sample proved positive. The three cows concerned in this sample
were submitted to clinical examination, and in consequence a black poll cow was slaughtered. Postmortem
examination of this cow revealed tuberculosis of one-quarter of the udder, the lungs and
mesenteric and lymphatic glands.
" The remaining samples of milk proved negative on examination."