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course of the milk through the bottling works to its consumption in the
home, will agree that the greatest contamination of the milk takes placc
after it has been delivered in the home ; and it is regrettable to see milk
of which the purity is undoubted, decanted from the bottles in which it
is delivered into jugs of such make and shape that cleanliness with them
is impossible. I advise everyone to retain milk not required for immediate
use in the bottle in which it is delivered, and, after the cap has
been removed, to keep the bottle covered with a cup or glass, but not
to decant it into a jug which cannot be as clean as the bottle from which
the milk has been poured. When emptied, the bottle should be rinsed
out and carefully kept from contamination until it is handed back to
the roundsman; it is not fair to expect the milk firm to deliver a
perfectly sterile bottle and yet directly it is emptied to allow such
bottles to litter the pavements or the front gardens.
Public Health (Meat) Regulations, 1924.
The object of these Regulations is to secure the more adequate
inspection of slaughtering, and the improvement in the handling, etc.,
of and the protection from contamination of meat. For the purposes of
the Regulations, meat is defined as the flesh of cattle, swine, sheep, or
goats, including bacon and ham and edible offal and fat, which is sold or
intended for sale for human consumption.
Their provisions are enforced by the Council's Food Inspector, Mr.
F. H. Hudson, who supervises the premises where foods are manufactured,
prepared, stored or exposed for sale.
Though considerable improvement occurred in the cleanly storage,
handling and delivering of meat upon the issue of the Meat Regulations,
1924, this improvement has not been as great as was expected and
hoped for. When one considers the splendid improvement that has
been effected in the milk trade, it is regrettable that the handling, etc.,
of meat has not reached a similarly high standard.
When the Meat Regulations, 1924, were issued by the Ministry of
Health, the majority of representatives of the meat trade in Hampstead
adopted an unsympathetic attitude. The object of the Regulations was
to secure improvement in the handling, transport and distribution
of meat: and the protection from contamination of meat offered for
sale at stalls and in shops, stores, etc. The Public Health Committee,
having given careful consideration to the question of the enforcement of
the Regulations and being desirous of securing the active co-operation of
all concerned, invited the butchers and meat traders of the Borough to