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Milk" at the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries Dairy
Farm at Shin field, near Reading. His expenses, amounting
to £6 were, with the approval of the Minister of Health, paid
by the Council. The Course was most valuable, a week's
intensive study of modern milk technique being made. This
Inspector is now transmitting the information thus acquired,
so far as applicable, to the cowkeepers and dairymen of this
district.
MEAT.
Regulations. The Public Health (Meat) Regulations,
1924, came into force on 1st April, 1925. These regulations
were designed to secure:—
(a) A more adequate inspection of animals, slaughtered
in this country.
(b) Cleanliness in the handling, distribution and sale of
meat.
They provide for notice of intention to slaughter, and of
suspected disease, to be given to the local authority, and
contain provisions relating to the transport, exposure and
sale of meat. Furthermore a local authority may, with the
approval of the Minister, mark with a distinctive mark, meat
passed by a qualified officer.
The Council took the following steps to make these regulations
effective:—
(a) Issued authorities to the Medical Officer of Health
and male Sanitary Inspectors to enter and inspect
any slaughter-house, room or other place, shop or
stall, or vehicle, to which these Regulations apply,
for the purpose of seeing whether the Regulations
were being observed.
(b) Duly advertised the Regulations in the local press
and served copies of them on all persons concerned.