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INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OF FOOD.
(a) Milk.
The veterinary examination of milch cows is carried
out by the Middlesex County Council, whilst your sanitary
officers pay frequent visits to cowsheds at the time of
milking-, with a view to seeing that the necessary steps are
taken for the production of clean milk, and also to Dairies
and Milkshops.
I am indebted to Mr. Robinson, Chief Officer of the
Public Control Department of the Middlesex County Council
for the following particulars of the action taken under the
Milk and Dairies (Consolidation) Act, 1915.
"During 1933 seventeen samples of milk were taken
from retailers in the district, and submitted to animal
innoculation at the Lister Institute. In none of these samples
were living tubercle bacilli demonstrated."
Milk (Special Designations) Order, 1923.
Licences Issued :
Certified : 9 Dealers' Licences.
Grade A (T.T.) : 14 Dealers' Licences and 1 Supplementary
Licence (including 4 licences to bottle).
Pasteurised : 16 Dealers' Licences, 2 Licences to
Pasteurise, and 2 Supplementary Licences.
During the year 146 samples of Graded Milk were taken
as follows :—
Average Bacterial
No. of Samples, count per 1 c.c.
Certified 1 1,496
Grade A (T.T.) 66 104,373
Grade A, Pasteurised 25 11,276
Pasteurised 54 22,185
It will therefore be seen that the above figures are well
within the standard allowed under the Milk (Special Designations)
Order, 1923.
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