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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Bromley 1931
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bromley]
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Samples. Satisfactory. Unsatisfactory.
"Grade A Pasteurised" milk 1
"Pasteurised" milk 11 2
"Certified" milk - 2
Ordinary milk 7 1
In the case of the two unsatisfactory samples of
Pasteurised milk, the firm producing this closed their
plant.
Contraventions.
Cases of contraventions of the Milk and Dairies Order, 1926, were reported as follows: —
| (1) Bottling and sealing in the street | Warning given. |
| (2) Ditto | Ditto. |
| (3) Dirty sediment in bottles of milk and dirty crates of a dairy firm | Ditto. |
| (4) Labelling bottles of milk in street as milk produced at farm | Ditto. |
| (5) Milk supply of a dairy firm became contaminated with disinfectant | Immediate action taken Cowkeeper in an adjoining district had used milking pail which previously had contained disinfectant. 17 samples of milk from various producers were sent to the Public Analyst to confirm the actual source of contamination |
Meat.
lliere are five licenced and five registered slaughter-
louses in the Borough.
Five thousand one hundred and eighty animals were
Known to have been slaughtered, and 5,080 were
Cammed hy the sanitary inspectors. Therefore 98 per