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INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OF FOOD.
Milk Supply.—At the end of the year there were only 3
cowkeepers on the register as producers of milk. Two of these
were licensed during the year by the Middlesex County Council
to produce Accredited Milk. The use of one cowshed was discontinued
in October last.
At the end of the year there were on the register 164 retail
purveyors of milk. Twenty of these registrations were in respect
of premises owned by one company and eleven by another and
used as places for the sale or distribution of bottled pasteurised
milk received from the Central Depots in another district. During
the year 14 purveyors of milk were registered, With respect to
premises used for other purposes, to retail milk in sealed receptacles
only, 2 new purveyors of milk were registered for premises purchased
from others who were on the register and one with premises in
another district was registered to retail milk within the Borough.
Two retail purveyors of milk discontinued their businesses and
their names were therefore taken off the register.
Milk (Special Designations) Order, 1923 and 1936.—
Under these Orders 95 licences Were granted during the year,
18 for the sale of Certified Milk, 26 for the sale of Grade A
(Tuberculin Tested) Milk and 51 for Pasteurised Milk.
Twelve samples of pasteurised milk were taken for bacteriological
examination. In all of them the results came within the
standard laid down by the Order.
Nineteen samples of ordinary unclassified milk were examined
for general bacterial count. Four of these were found to contain
over 200,000 bacteria per cubic centimetre, namely 2,375,000,
1,885,000, 1,310,000 and 705,000. The attention of the vendors
was called to the condition of the milk, and advice was given in
exercising care in the sterilisation of the milk vessels and in the
method of storing the milk. The advice given was apparently
acted upon, as further samples proved to be satisfactory.
Eleven samples of ordinary untreated milk were submitted
for bacteriological examination at the Lister Institute for the
presence of tubercle bacilli. In no instance was this organism
found.