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INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OF FOOD.
(a) MILK.
Mr. Robinson, Chief Officer of the Public Control Department
of the Middlesex County Council, has kindly supplied
me with the following information.
Milk and Dairies (Consolidation) Act, 1915.
Tuberculosis Order, 1925.
During 1935 fifteen samples of milk were taken from
retailers in the district. The samples were submitted to the
Lister Institute for animal inoculation tests for the presence
of tubercle bacilli. None of these samples was found to
contain tubercle bacilli.
Routine examination of milch cattle was carried out
during the year by Mr. Reginald Wooff, M.R.C.V.S., the
County Council's whole-time veterinary inspector; 455 inspections
of cows were carried out in Wembley, but none
of these were found to be suffering from Tuberculosis.
Milk (Special Designations) Order, 1923.
Licences Issued, 1935:—
Designation
LICENCE
Dealers
Supplementary
To Bottle
To
Pasteurise
Certified
10
2
—
—
Grade a. T.T.
—
4
3
—
Grade A.
1
1
—
—
Grade A. (Pasteurised)
7
—
—
—
Pasteurised
23
5
—
2
During the year, 122 samples of Graded Milk were taken
as follows:—
Grade A (T.T.) 57
Grade A Pasteurised 12
Grade A 8
Pasteurised 45
In four cases the bacterial count exceeded the standard
prescribed, and in eight bacillus coli was found to be present.
The vendors' attention was drawn to this condition, and
subsequent samples proved satisfactory.
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