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largely reconstructed and fitted with modern dairy apparatus, the
third is well managed, but is capable of much improvement, while
the fourth has been the subject of notices under the Milk and
Dairies Order, and is now in the process of changing its tenancy,
after which it is hoped there will be a decided improvement in the
construction of the dairy and in the management of the business
of milk production. As regards the fifth much has to be done
to make the cowshed and milk store suitable, but this may not
be necessary as negotiations are at present going on for the purchase
of the land and buildings to be used for another purpose than the
production of milk.
At the end of the year there were 75 retail purveyors of milk
registered in the Borough. Twenty-one of these registrations were
in respect of premises owned by one Company and used simply as
places for distributing milk which is pasteurised and bottled in a
large central depot in the western area of the County of London.
During the year three retail purveyors of milk occupying
entirely new premises, and seven, who had purchased premises
already used for the purpose, were placed on the register.
In those premises which are not simply distributing centres
for bottled milk, a high standard of equipment and management
is gradually becoming the rule. What is aimed at is the provision
of a steam boiler, galvanised washing troughs and bottle washing
apparatus, where bottles are employed, a separate milk treatment
room, where pasteurisation is carried out, and a milk storage room.
During the year three of the old premises have been brought
up-to-date by installing a steam boiler, fixing galvanised iron
washing troughs and providing a separate milk store. New buildings
have had to be erected to effect these improvements. The three
new premises already mentioned have been similarly arranged
and equipped.
Milk (Special Designations) Order, 1923.—Under this Order
70 licences were granted during the year, 28 with respect to Certified
Milk, 24 Grade A (Tuberculin Tested) Milk, and 18 with respect
to Pasteurised Milk.
Eleven samples of Certified Milk, one of Grade A (Tuberculin
Tested) Milk and three of Pasteurised Milk were taken for bacteriological
examination. In all of them the results came within the