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continued to be high and although a few notices have been
served during the year for want of cleanliness and other defects
the irregularities have been minor.
In January 1956 the Food Hygiene Regulations will come into
force and these will mean a large increase in the number of visits
made and also from a general reading of the Regulations a considerable
amount of work in most of the food premises in the district.
The Regulations on the whole are very good and are designed to
reduce the possibility of food poisoning and to promote hygienic
methods.
I feel that although it is necessary to have the necessary equipment
and layout in food premises the actual hygiene in the end rests with
the food handlers, and that it is hygienic methods of handling and
treatment of food that is of major importance. This is always impressed
as far as possible on the occupiers of the various premises
which are visited.
Milk Supply
The following licences were granted to dealers to sell under the
Milk (Special Designations) Regulations, 1936-1949:—
Tuberculin Tested 7
Pasteurised 11
Sterilised 13
The following Supplementary licences under Principal licences
granted by other authorities to sell milk from premises outside this
area were also granted:—
Tuberculin Tested 12
Pasteurised 12
Sterilised 11

This is the first time for several years in which unsatisfactory
reports on samples of milk have been found. In the case of unsatisfactory
reports the two unsatisfactory samples of T.T. Farm Bottled
Milk both came from the same farm and were the result of a defective
cooler. The farm in question has a comparatively small milk output
and has only one cooler. This cooler went out of action due to a
mechanical fault and the farmer instead of finding other means of
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