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value of the milk so treated, it is quite a reasonable demand that
the remainder of the milk supply should be treated by pasteurisation.
The Town Council, recognising the need for steps towards this
end, gave their support to resolutions put before the Minister of
Health and the Minister of Agriculture by the People's League of
Health as follows :—
" That this meeting representative of all interests involved
do approve of the Report of the People's League of Health
on Tuberculosis of Bovine Origin in Great Britain, and urge
upon His Majesty's Government the imperative need of
giving early practical effect to the proposals it contains."
The main proposals contained in the Report were as follows :—
(а) To initiate, and to put into operation, as circumstances
permit, measures directed to diminish and ultimately to
eliminate tuberculosis amongst our dairy herds.
(б) To encourage the establishment of herds certified free from
tuberculosis, and
(c) To promote legislation necessary to give permissive powers
to the larger Urban Areas to require the efficient pasteurisation
of all milk within their area which is not drawn
from tuberculosis free cows.
Your Medical Officer of Health, as Chairman of the National
Milk Publicity Council, had the opportunity of placing his views
on the milk supply before the Reorganisation Commission for
Milk and more recently, as a representative of the Society of Medical
Officers of Health, before the Cattle Diseases Committee of the
Economic Advisory Council which is considering the whole question
of the purity of the milk supply and the co-related subject of pasteurisation.
Meat and Other Foods.—There were no infringements of the
Public Health (Meat) Regulations.
No meat is sold from stalls in the Borough.
There are four private slaughterhouses, but most of the killing
is done in two. During the year 149 cattle, 594 sheep, 1,282 pigs
and 83 calves were slaughtered in these slaughterhouses. All
these animals were stunned by means of a humane implement
and all meat was inspected.
There is no public slaughterhouse in the Borough.