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INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OF FOOD
(A) MILK SUPPLY
Production.
There are nine farms in the district at which milk is produced. Of
these, five are producing tuberculin tested milk and one accredited. The
milk from the remainder is sold wholesale.
During the year the work of erecting a new dairy complete with new
bottle washing, churn sterilising, bottle filling and milk pasteurising
equipment, was completed. At the same establishment work to a new
milking parlour was completed, and the cooling and sterilising equipment
necessary for the production of farm bottled tuberculin tested milk
installed.
Processing and Distribution.
The following is a summary of the position:—
(1) Number of premises licensed to pasteurise milk 2
(2) Number of premises from which pasteurised milk was
sold 50
(3) Number of premises outside Harrow from which
pasteurised milk was retailed in the district 17
(4) Number of premises from which T.T. milk was sold 47
(5) Number of premises outside Harrow from which T.T.
milk was retailed in the district 17
(6) Number of premises from which sterilised milk was sold 46
(7) Number of premises outside Harrow from which
sterilised milk was retailed in the district 14
Inspection and Supervision.
During the year 109 visits were made to cow sheds and dairies.
Sampling.
Thirty-eight samples of milk were taken during the year. All were
satisfactory.
Complaints.
During the year 12 complaints were received about foreign matter
in milk, this being about one half of the number received during 1951.
Five of the complaints were about glass fragments, one was in respect
of cement, four about pieces of debris, one about a snail and another
about the presence of a safety pin.
(B) MEAT
Only two of the six slaughter houses in the district were used for
the slaughtering of animals; at neither was regular slaughtering carried
out. In all 104 pigs and two calves were slaughtered; very little disease
was found and only one set of lungs and four heads had to be condemned.
Five slaughtermen renewed their licences to slaughter.