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INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OF FOOD.
Milk Supply.—At the end of the year there were only two
cowkeepers on the register as producers of milk. One of these
was licensed during the year by the Middlesex County Council
to produce Accredited Milk. The use of one cowshed was discontinued.
At the end of the year there were on the register 166 retail
purveyors of milk. Twenty-two of these registrations were in
respect of premises owned by one company and twelve 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 5 new purveyors of milk were registered, with respect to
premises used for other purposes, to retail milk in sealed receptacles
only, and 7 purveyors of milk were registered for premises purchased
from others who were on the register. Three retail purveyors of
milk discontinued their businesses and their names were therefore
taken off the register.
Milk (Special Designations) Order, 1936.—-Under this Order
91 licences were granted during the year, 30 for the sale of Tuberculin
Tested Milk, one for Accredited Milk and 60 for Pasteurised Milk.
Six samples of tuberculin tested milk were submitted for the
Methylene Blue Reduction Test. One sample did not satisfy
the test and the circumstances were reported to the Medical Officer
of Health for the County in which the producer's premises were
situated.
Five samples of pasteurised milk were taken for bacteriological
examination. In all of them the results came within the standard
laid down bv the Order.
Twenty-two samples of ordinary unclassified milk were
examined for bacterial content. Ten of these were found to contain
over 200,000 bacteria per cubic centimetre, namely 2,800,000
1,500,000, 1,495,000, 665,000, 640,000, 605,000, 995,000, 770,000,
485,000 and 425,000. The first six results may be disregarded, as
the samples were unfortunately delayed before being examined.
Subsequent samples proved to be satisfactory. In the others the
retailers were advised to give more attention to the sterilization
of the milk vessels and further samples gave satisfactory results.