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25.
MILK SUPPLY.
Number of registered dairymen and purveyors of milk 13
Number of rer istered premises 32
Number of cowkeepers 6
Number of faros where milk is bottled on
the premises 4
186 special visits have been made to secure cleanliness of dairies
and dairy farms and for protecting nilk against contamination.
There is one pasteurising establishment in the district end during
the past year 84 samples of bottled pasteurised milk taken immediately
after machine capping were submitted for bacteriological examination.
Two of the samples failed to comply with the requirements of the Milk
(Special Designations) Order, 1936-1941, in one case the bacteria
exceeding 100,000 per millilitre, and one sample gave unsatisfactory
results on phosphatase test, - a test devised to indicate that milk has
been adequately heated.
Eighteen samples of raw bulk milk were taken from rail tanks,
forty-six milk bottles immediately after cleansing in the bottle washing
machines and eight bottles after hand washing.
The total number of milk samples taken for examination was 194;
Tuberculin Tested milk 12, Fasteurised nilk 158 and non-Designated milk 24.
Of the pasteurised nilk 157 samples satisfied the Phosphatase Test, seven
samples exceeded the bacterial count prescribed by the Order and one failed
to satisfy the Phosphatase Test.
SLAUGHTERHOUSES.
Three Slauliterhouses are licensed for the slaughter of animals intended
for human consumption.
The Livestock (Restrictions on Slaughtering) Order 1940, made under the
Defence (General) Regulations 1939, prohibits the slaughtering of animals for
human consumption except under the terms and "conditions of a licence granted
by, or under the authority of, the Minister of Food.
None of the three slaughterhouses is licensed by the Ministry of Pood and
general slaughtering has temporarily ceased.