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Dagenham 1931
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Dagenham]
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INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OF FOOD.
(a) Milk Supply.
There are 29 retailers of milk in the district, the folio win?
being the number of premises from which the various classes of
milk are retailed :—
Ungraded Milk 26
" Grade A " Milk 1
" Grade A " Pasteurised Milk 3
"Grade A "T.T. Milk 2
Certified Milk 3
Pasteurised Milk 9
Sterilised Milk 5
The number of Company Distributing Centres is 10.
During the year, five retailers were registered for the first time,
registration was refused in one case and two businesses chansei
hands through the buying out of smaller concerns by one of the
larger.
Milk Sampling.
| Small Dealers | Large Scaie | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. of Bacteria | Local producer. | Not local. | ||||
| perc.c. in thousands. | Satisfactory. | not | Satisfactory. | not | Satisfactory | not |
| Under 30 | 6 | 2 | 12 | — | 19 | — |
| 30—100 | 11 | 1 | 12 | 2 | 16 | — |
| 100—200 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 1 |
| 200—500 | — | — | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Over 500 | — | — | — | 1 | — | — |
| 20 | 4 | 30 | 7 | 41 | 4 | |
These analyses show a steady improvement in the quality of the
milk sold, though, of course, the low summer temperature favoured
low counts. Of the milk of the small producers, 20 out of 21 samples
of the local producers and 30 out of 37 of the outside producers
were satisfactory. These figures compare with 17 out of 19 and
46 out of 62 for last year. 30 per cent, of the milk of the small
producers complied with the bacterial standard of certified milk
and 75 per cent, with the standard of "Grade A" milk. The