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Frequent visits are made to all premises, and every effort
made by the Council's officers to ensure a clean and wholesome
milk supply.
The Council's Veterinary Inspector (Mr. Overed,
M.R.C.V.S.) and your Medical Officer made periodical inspections
of all the dairy cows in the district under the powers
conferred by the Finchlcy Urban District Council Act, 1908.
With one or two exceptions the state of the cowsheds
was satisfactory, but on more than one occasion we had to
severely comment upon the dirty condition of the oows' udders
and hind quarters.
The following is Mr. Overed's report for last year:—
Gentlemen,—
I beg to report that I have made the usual quarterly
inspection of the dairy cows (112) in the district during the
past year, and have found the udders generally free from
disease, and, as a whole, the animals are well kept.
In one or two instances the attention of owners had to
be called to the somewhat dirty condition of their cows,
generally with satisfactory results.
Yours faithfully,
J. E. Overed.
I notice with much pleasure the ever-increasing use of
sealed bottles for the delivery of milk. Practically all the
Luge companies adopt it to a greater or less extent. The
advantages of this method of delivering milk are so obvious as to
need no further comment.
During the year 1912 the Local Government Board issued
a report on "The Value of Boiled Milk as a Food for Infants
and Young Animals." This report, based upon careful