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Barnet 1961

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barnet Urban District Council]

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figures improvement was made before the end of the year.
As more modern equipment is added, less handling of the product results,
"but the additional equipment provides more joints, pipes, tanks, etc. ,
requiring to be adequately cleansed and sterilized. If only one small
part is not so cleansed and sterilized, the result shews in the methylene
blue grading.
This Company is now reaching the stage where, I feel, production is
sufficient to warrant the employment of bacteriological staff to check all
stages of plant and production and thus ensure that the topmost standards
are maintained at all times, rather than wait for this department and others
to find any lowering of standards by sampling after the product has left the
factory on retail sale.
There are also forty-seven premises registered for the storage and sale
of ice cream, the sane as last year, there being one closure and one new
registration.
DAIRIES, COWSHEDS AND KELKSHOPS.
The control of the productioh of millc is vested in the Ministry of
Agriculture Fisheries and Pood.
The local authority is responsible for the inspection and registration
of milk distributors and other dairy premises not directly concerned with the
actual production of milk, and for licensing for the sale of Designated llilks.

Five samples of milk have been taken, in course of delivery to the consumer, and submitted to the appropriate tests with the following results:-

DesignationSamples TakenSatisfactoryUnsatisfactory.
Tuberculin Tested (Pasteurised)11Nil
Pasteurised22Nil
Pasteurised (Jersey and Guernsey)11Nil
Sterilised11Nil
Totals55Nil

Since all the milk retailed in the district is supplied by the large
Companies, maintaining laboratory staffs, there would not appear to be a need
for such frequent sampling as heretofore.