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Bacteriological examinations—ordinary 35
graded milk 40
Tubercle bacilli 5
The presence of bacillus coli in 20 of the ordinary
milk samples taken was an unsatisfactory feature in the
reports on these samples.
Attention was paid to the milk supplied to schools,
and samples were taken periodically as follows: (a)
Elementary Schools 9, and (b) Secondary Schools and
Technical School 9.
Milk. Contraventions.
No contraventions came to the notice of the Department
which called for statutory action.
Meat and Other Foods.
There are five registered slaughter-houses and three
licensed slaughter-houses in the area.
The Local Authority granted 21 licences to slaughtermen
during 1937 under the provisions of the Slaughter of
Animals Act, 1933.
It has been our practice in previous Annual Reports
to include five special tables (A to E) showing various
details of animals slaughtered for food in the Borough.
This year these tables undergo revision, in order to meet
the requirements of the form of tabulation now suggested
by the Ministry of Health in Circular 1650. The continuity
of our previous tabulations is not, however,
disturbed to any great extent, as the form suggested by
the Ministry (Table A) embodies in a condensed form
much of the information I have hitherto submitted.