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When the Essex County Council receive an application for a
producer's licence, or renewal of a producer's licence it is the
custom to communicate with the Local Authority in whose area
the farm is situate in order to ascertain if the producer is complying
with the Milk and Dairies Orders, 1926 and 1938. Not until a
satisfactory reply has been received can the licence be granted, or
renewed.
There are now 40 licences in force within the District under
the Milk (Special Designations) Orders, 1936 and 1938.
Of these, 11 firms or individuals retail Tuberculin Tested Milk,
1 retails Accredited Milk, and 23 retail Pasteurised Milk. Three
milk producers hold licences to produce Accredited Milk.
(III) Meat and Other Foods.
A considerable amount of the Sanitary Inspector's time has
again been taken up with the important duty of inspecting meat in
slaughter-houses, and butchers' shops and stalls. For this purpose
1,700 visits were paid to slaughter-houses, and 95 visits to other
premises. Suitable precautions have again been taken for the
destruction of meat found to be diseased.
The following tables set out the post-mortem findings in respect
of Cattle, Calves, Sheep and Lambs, and Pigs, also the quantities
of foodstuffs surrendered from slaughter-houses, and other premises.