London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

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Friern Barnet 1960

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Friern Barnet]

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Tinned meat 42 tins.
Tinned fish 1 tin.
Tinned vegetables 71 tins.
Tinned fruit 130 tins.
This unsound food was disposed of either by
incineration or by burial at the Sewage Works.
Milk.
Twenty persons or companies are registered for
the purpose of distributing milk in the district.
There is one dairy in which milk is pasteurised
and bottled.
All the milk sold in Friern Burnet is either
pasteurised, sterilised or tuberculin-tested.
The following licences were granted by the
Council:-
Dealer's Supplementary
Licence. Licence.
To sell pasteurised
milk 4 9
To sell sterilised
milk 19 11
To sell tuberculin-tested
milk 5 10
Ninety-six samples of the different grades of
milk were examined and all were satisfactory.
Samples of the washed bottles from the dairy were
also examined and found to be of a satisfactory
standard of cleanliness.
Ice cream.
Seventy-six premises are registered for the
sale of ice cream.
Twenty-six samples of the various products
offered for sale were examined bacteriologically
and all were found to be satisfactory.
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