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Refrigerators:
Interiors cleansed 1
General:
Want of cleanliness 36
Other defects 25
MILK SUPPLY:
Number of registered dairymen and purveyors
of milk 13
Number of registered premises 32
Number of cowkeepers 6
Number of farms where milk is bottled on the
premises 4
112 special visits have been made to secure cleanliness of
dairies and dairy farms and for protecting milk against
contamination.
There is one pasteurising establishment in the district, and
during the past year 98 samples of bottled pasteurised milk
taken immediately after machine capping were submitted for
bacteriological examination. One of the samples failed to
comply with the requirements of the Milk (Special Designations)
Order, 1936—1941, in this case the sample failed to
comply with Methylene Blue Test.
Twenty samples of raw bulk milk were taken from rail
tanks, fifty milk bottles immediately after cleansing in the
bottle washing machines and two bottles after hand washing.
The total number of milk samples taken for examination
was 176, Tuberculin Tested milk 7, Pasteurised milk 149 and
non-Designated milk 20. Of the pasteurised milk 145 samples
satisfied the Methylene Blue and Phosphatase Tests, four
samples failed to satisfy the Methylene Blue Test.
SLAUGHTERHOUSES:
Three Slaughterhouses are licensed for the slaughter of
animals intended for human consumption.