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INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OF FOOD.
Milk Supply.—There are only five cowkeepers on the register
as producers of milk.
At the end of the year there were on the register 139 retail
purveyors of milk. Nineteen of these registrations were in respect
of premises owned by one company and used as places for distributing
bottled pasteurised milk received from the Central Depot
in another district. During the year 20 purveyors of milk were
registered with respect to premises used for other purposes to
retail milk in sealed receptacles only, nine new purveyors of milk
were registered who had purchased premises from others who were
on the register, and five with premises in other districts were
registered to retail milk within the Borough. Two new dairies
were registered during the year. Four businesses were discontinued
and six shopkeepers ceased to sell milk in sealed receptacles, the
names of the owners being taken off the register as retail purveyors
of milk.
Milk (Special Designations) Order, 1923.—Under this
Order 93 licences were granted during the year, 17 for the sale of
Certified Milk, 24 for Grade A (Tuberculin Tested) Milk, one
for Grade A Milk and 51 for Pasteurised Milk.
Seven samples of pasteurised milk were taken for bacteriological
examination. In all of them the results came within the standard
laid down by the Order.
Twenty-one samples of ordinary unclassified milk were
examined for general bacterial count. Fourteen of these were
found to contain over 200,000 bacteria per cubic centimetre,
the maximum being 9,400,000. The attention of the vendors was
drawn to the condition of the milk and advice was given in exercising
more care in the sterilisation of the milk utensils. The advice
was apparently of value for further samples gave more satisfactory
results.
Eight samples of ordinary milk were submitted to biological
examination at the Lister Institute for the presence of tubercle
bacilli, but in no case were these bacilli found.