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SECTION VIII.
INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OF food.
Four sanitary inspectors are now engaged in the inspection and supervision
of food and food premises; three of them on meat inspection and in the taking
of samples under the food and Drugs (Adulteration) Act, 1938, and the various
Regulations and Orders dealing with food standards, and the fourth in the systematic
inspection of food premises. In addition, each district inspector exercises a general
supervision over all food exposed for sale in the market place and in all food premises
in his own district.
Milk Supply.—The Borough Council is required to keep registers of all persons
carrying on in the Borough the trade of cowkeeper, dairyman, or purveyor of milk.
The register of retail purveyors of milk must be kept separate from the other. All
dairies have to be registered also. Information on these matters is set out below
in tabular form.

The number of inspections of dairy premises was 239, and a high standard of
cleanliness in cowsheds and dairies and in other premises where milk is sold has
been maintained. At the end of the year the licensed cowsheds in the Borough
were as set out in the following Table No. 61.

Designated Milks.—Under the Milk (Special Designations) Order, 1936, all
licences for designated milks can now be granted by Metropolitan Borough Councils.
This order revokes that of 1923 and reduces the number of designated milks to
three, namely (a) "Tuberculin Tested," (b) "Accredited," and (c) "Pasteurised."
Milk may also be sold as " Tuberculin Tested (Pasteurised)," if two licences are