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Dairies and Milk Shops.
Number of dairies registered 28
Number of purveyors of milk registered with premises
in the Borough, selling milk in properly closed and
unopened receptacles 48
Number of purveyors of milk registered whose premises
are outside the Borough 24
Number of dairies (included above) where milk is
bottled, etc. 5
Milk )(Special Designations) Regulations, 1936 to 1942.
Designation . Samples not
of milk. Licences issued. Samples taken, satisfactory.
Pasteurised 36 42 2
Tuberculin-tested 22 6 —
T.T. (Pasteurised) — 15 —
T.T. (Certified) — 2 —
Accredited 2 6 —
60 71 2
The cleaning and sterilisation of milk bottles was the subject
of a report submitted to the Ministry of Health by Drs. Betty
Hobbs and G-. S. Wilson, of the London School of Hygiene and
Tropical Medicine. The authors suggested a practical standard
of bacteriological cleanliness for milk bottles, such standard being
that the final mean based on 24 plate counts should not exceed
600 per bottle, reckoned as pints. On this report the Public
Health Committee recommend the Council to support a resolution
from Amersham pressing for legislation to be made to settle a
standard of bacteriological count for all rinsing of churns,
bottles, etc.
Milk in Schools Scheme.
The circumstances of children being excluded from school
because of infectious diseases had, of course, been depriving the
children of the opportunity of having their milk at school. This
position was discussed with the Food Executive Officer (Mr.
Cloote), and with his co-operation an arrangement was made
whereby the Food Executive Officer is informed of school children
who have been excluded from school because of infectious disease,
and he allows the mother to have, on her request, additional milk
from her dairyman during the time the children are so excluded.
The case of children actually suffering from infectious disease is
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