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Thirty-eight 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.
Five 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
a rea.
14. ICE CREAM
There are in the District ninety premises registered
for the sale of ice cream and one for the manufacture of
ice cream.
Forty-seven samples were taken during the year for
examination by the Methylene Blue Test. These were placed
in the following grades-
Grade I 31 Grade III 8
Grade II 8 Grade IV 0
Samples of ice cream for Chemical Analysis are
taken by the sampling officers of the Middlesex County
Council.
15. FOOD POISONING
There was no serious outbreak of food poisoning in
this District during 1954.
16. DISINFECTION AND DISINFESTATION
46 premises were disinfected after cases of infectious
disease.
6 loads of bedding were disinfected in the Council's
steam disinfector.
13 verminous premises were disinfested.
1 load of verminous bedding and articles was disinfested.
4 loads of bedding and articles were destroyed.
95 wasp nests were destroyed.
8 ants' nests were destroyed.
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