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SECTION E.
INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OF FOOD.
Milk Supply.
During the year there were 21 cowkeepers in the District with
farms registered under the Milk and Dairies Order, 1926. These
farms are regularly inspected by the Sanitary Inspectors.
It was found necessary to serve informal notices in 4 cases for
infringements of the Milk and Dairies Order, 1926.
It is interesting to note that only 5.8 per cent, of the milk sold
in the District is raw, ungraded in type. All the schools have, of
course, Heat Treated milk.
Production of Designated Milk.
There are 6 dairy farms licensed by the County Council for the
production of Accredited milk and 4 licensed for the production of
Tuberculin Tested milk, one of the latter also being licensed to
bottle.
Milk (Special Designations) Regulations, 1936 to 1946.
Licences issued by the Council for the year ended 31st
December, 1947, to retail graded milk were as follows:—
13 Tuberculin Tested; 18 Pasteurised; 1 Accredited.
In addition, 7 supplementary licences, namely 4 for Tuberculin
Tested and 3 for Pasteurised milk were issued , these being licences
required by retailers who hold principal licences in another District
and wish to sell milk in this District from premises to which the
principal licence applies.
Milk Retailers.
There are 16 milk retailers with registered premises in the
District, including 3 producers who are registered both as producers
and retailers.
There are also 7 persons registered as milk retailers in Hornchurch
whose premises are registered in neighbouring districts.
Milk Bottles.
Owing to the shortage of transport during the war years a
number of milk retailers at various times during the year continued
to dump crates of full bottles of milk on the pavements in the
District for the roundsman to deliver later in the day.
Letters were sent to the retailers concerned and this undesirable
practice was stopped.
Complaints as to dirty bottles inevitably occur, but if the same
individual care were to be given to the bottles by the consumers
as is given by the central supplier the general position would be
considerably improved.