Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Ruislip]
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6 lbs Salad Dressing 1 lb. Lemonade
1 lb. Cocoa Powder
11. MILK SUPPLY
There are in this district:-
13 Retail Distributors
4 Dairies
Producers Licensed by the Middlesex County Council for:-
Accredited Milk - 2
Tuberculin Tested Milk - 1
Pasteurised Milk - 1
Thirty-five Dealers' Licences and twenty-nine Supplementary
Licences were granted under the Milk (Special Designation) (Raw
Milk) Regulations 1949 and the Milk (Special Designation)
(Pasteurised and Sterilised Milk) Regulations, 1949.
Six samples of milk were taken for examination by the
Methylene Blue Test and the results were satisfactory. Samples
were also taken by the Middlesex County Council who are the
Food and Drugs Authority in this area.
12. ICE CREAM
There are in the district ninety-four premises registered
for the sale of ice cream and one for the manufacture of ice
cream.
Sixty-five samples were taken during the year for examination
by the Methylene Blue Test. These were placed in the following
grades:-
Grade 38 Grade III 5
Grade II 22 Grade IV 0
Samples of ice cream for Chemical Analysis are taken by the
sampling officers of the Middlesex County Council.
13. FOOD POISONING
There was no serious outbreak of food poisoning in this
district during 1953.
14. DISINFECTION AND DISINFESTATION
105 premises were disinfected after cases of infectious
disease.
16 loads of bedding were disinfected in the Council's steam
disinfector.
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