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DAIRIES AND MILK SHOPS.
Number of dairies registered 29
Number of purveyors of milk registered, with premises
in the Borough, selling milk in properly closed and
unopened receptacles 35
Number of purveyors of milk registered, whose premises
are outside the Borough 27
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Number of dairies (included above) where milk is
bottled, etc. 8
319 visits were paid to dairies and milk shops during the
year. All the premises registered as dairies where milk is
bottled are provided with a steam plant for the cleansing and
sterilising of the utensils and containers used.
Last year reference was made to the presence of particulate
matter in the milk on arrival from other districts, and the
assistance of the Public Health Departments of the districts
from which the milk was sent was obtained with beneficial
results. During 1938, 270 further filter samples were taken by
the sanitary inspectors. In all cases where the samples were
unsatisfactory, the attention of the Public Health Department
of the District in which the milk had been produced was drawn
to the matter, and the filter pads sent for inspection. Inspection
of the filter pads over the period under review continued to show
a steady improvement in the cleanliness of the milk sent into the
Borough.
MILK AND DAIRIES (CONSOLIDATION) ACT, 1915.
TUBERCULOSIS ORDER, 1925.
The Acting Chief Officer of the Public Control Department
of the Middlesex County Council has submitted the following
information regarding work carried out under the above
statutes : —
"During the year 1938, 25 samples of milk were taken
from retailers in the Borough. The samples were submitted
to the Lister Institute for animal inoculation tests for the
presence of tubercle bacilli. Four of these samples were
found to contain living tubercle bacilli : —
1. Traced to a farm in Hertfordshire; the Ministry of
Agriculture reported— 'It is thought that the responsible
animal was disposed of prior to the investigation.'
2. Traced to a farm in Buckinghamshire and one cow
slaughtered under the Tuberculosis Order.
3 & 4. Traced to farms in Buckinghamshire (Reports not
yet received)."
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