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(Tuesday, 2nd June, 1953) arrangements were made by distributors to deliver extra milk on the
previous day to premises on and beyond the northern side of Oxford Street, which formed part of
the processional route.
During the year, 220 applications under the Milk (Special Designations) (Raw Milk) Regulations,
1949, and the Milk (Special Designations) (Pasteurised and Sterilised Milk) Regulations, 1949, were
received from sixty-eight milk purveyors, and licences were granted as follows :—
Tuberculin tested milk 44 dealer's and 16 supplementary
Pasteurised milk 1 pasteuriser's, 62 dealer's and 16 supplementary
Sterilised milk 1 steriliser's, 64 dealer's and 16 supplementary
The average composition of the 191 genuine samples of milk analysed was : total solids 12.56 per
cent.; fat, 3.72 per cent. ; solids not fat, 8.84 per cent., as compared with the legal minima,
namely, 11.50 per cent., 3.00 per cent, and 8.50 per cent, respectively.
Forty-six samples of milk taken at the premises of two authorised wholesale firms operating heat
treatment plants were submitted to the tests prescribed for the various designations ; all were reported
to be satisfactory. Of 122 other samples of milk examined by the Council's Bacteriologist, all were
found to comply with the requisite standards except three samples which failed to satisfy the methylene
blue test and one which failed the phosphatase test.
Butter and Margarine Premises.—Three dealers in margarine and two butter manufacturers are on
the register. Fifty-three inspections of the premises were made.
Ice-Cream.—The number of premises on the register was 192, which includes three where ice-cream
is manufactured : 254 inspections were made, and two notices served.
Twenty samples of ice-cream were examined bacteriologically, all of which passed the methylene
blue test, eighteen being grade 1 and two grade 2.
Thirty-seven samples submitted to the Public Analyst were all returned as genuine. The results
of the analyses of these are indicated in Table 6.