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school, or alternatively a senior pupil. Advice on siting, construction
and management would be available from the Public Health Inspector,
and arrangements made for a periodic testing of the quality of
the water.
3. SAFE MILK. I am indebted to the Chief Officer of the
Public Control Department of the Middlesex County Council, for the
following paragraph on milk.
"Eight samples of raw milk were procured in your Borough and
tested for the presence of tubercle bacilli. All were satisfactory.
From the 1st January, 1961, the County Council became the
licensing authority for the issue of licences to dealers with premises
within its area and 46 licences were issued in respect of the sale of
milk to which the special designations" pasteurised," "sterilised"
and "tuberculin tested" could be applied. The period for which
these licences were granted has been extended from one year to five
years. Sixty-one samples of milk were obtained to test that heat
treatment and subsequent storage were properly carried out. All were
satisfactory. In addition, thirty-six samples of washed bottles were
obtained from processing dairies in the Borough to check the efficiency
of the cleansing plant used for milk bottles. The results were
satisfactory.
Fifty-six inspections of premises were made to ensure proper
compliance with the Milk (Special Designation) Regulations, 1960."
4. CLEAN AIR ACT, 1956 : Section 3.
A dual obligation is imposed upon any person who installs a
new furnace in industrial premises or a new furnace of an output
greater than 55,000 British Thermal Units per hour in domestic
premises,
(a) to install only such a furnace which is, so far as practicable,
capable of being operated continuously without emitting
smoke when burning fuel of the type for which it was
designed, and
(b) to notify the local authority of his intention to install the
furnace.
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