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dairy apparatus. The four others need much improvement in
construction and in management to comply with the requirements
of the Milk and Dairies Order, 1926, and the attention of the occupiers
has been drawn to the necessity of immediate steps being taken
to effect the improvement.
There were on the Register at the end of the year 78 retail
purveyors of milk in the whole of the district. Twenty-one of
these registrations were in respect of premises owned by one Company
and used only as places for distributing milk, the milk being
bottled at a central depot within the area of the London County
Council. Five were in respect of general shops dealing in bottled
sterilised milk prepared and bottled at a depot in London.
Four of the registrations were new and were allowed after the
premises had been approved of. Seven registrations were in respect
of premises which were transferred to new occupiers.
Milk (Special Designations) Order, 1923.—Under the Milk
(Special Designations) Order 15 licences were granted for the sale
of Certified milk, 14 for Grade A (Tuberculin Tested) milk and 20
for the sale of Pasteurised milk.

The producer of the sample giving 83,500 bacteria per c.c.
which is above the standard, was dealt with by the Ministry of
Health.