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XII.—INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OF FOODSTUFFS.
The sanitary inspectors continue to allot as much
time as practicable to this most important branch of the
work of the Health Department.
There is evidence that butchers, fruiterers, and
grocers, are showing a marked desire to improve their
shops and storage places of food. Some butchers' shops
and fruiterers' shops still lack closed window fronts, and
the unsatisfactory delivery of bread unwrapped is still
persisted in. The public is demanding a clean handling
of their foodstuffs, and the marked advance during the
past few years in this direction is but one direction
showing the result of the educational work of sanitary
inspectors and health visitors of the Department, and
of all those concerned with a high state of communal
hygiene.
Milk.
The following premises are registered for the sale
of milk:—
Dairies and milk-stores:—
(i) Premises within the Borough 80
(ii) Premises outside the Borough 15
Dairies licenced for the sale of:
"Pasteurised" milk 9
"Certified " milk 4
"Grad A" milk 1
"Grade A (Tuberculin Tested)" milk 4
The Ministry of Health has granted a producer's
licence to sell under the designation "Certified" milk
to one farm within the Borough.
Three supplementary licences have been granted
for the sale of graded milks, viz., "Pasteurised,
"Certified" and "Grade A (T.T.),"within the
Borough from premises outside the district.
The progress made in Bromley during the past few
years in the distribution of safe milk is rather remarkable.
Much of the credit for this must be given to the
large firms, United Dairies, Express Dairy and the
Co-operative Society. There can be no question in my