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INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OP FOOD.
SECTION E.
The task of maintaining the standard of food
inspection during the period under review was a hard
one, particularly in the new year, and again from June
onwards to the end of the year.
Visits to food preparing premises;, such as
restaurant kitchens, and other similar routine work
just had to be dropped owing to pressure of urgent dayby-day
demands, more particularly as the result of enemy
activity, upon the services of the limited technical
staff. It became a matter of deciding which job could
be omitted with the least consequent and possible dagger
to food supplies and public health.
It was an anxious time for all concerned and
there is good reason and justification for thankfulness
that despite the state of emergency, a safe and wholesome
food supply was maintained.
(a) Milk Supply.
There was no change in the number of persons
registered as dairymen in the Borough; the figure at the
end of the year remained at 40, although it should be
understood that this number includes several firms whose
premises are outside the Borough boundary.
There is only one dairy herd in the Borough.
Designated Milks.
Apart from registration under the Milk and
Dairies Order, 1926, the following tabular statement
shows the number of licences issued under the provisions
of the Milk (Special Designations) Regulations 1936-1942.

Bacteriological Examinatlor
The number of samples taken in 1944 was much less
than during the previous year, for the reasons given abovo.
Of the 22 samples submitted to the plate count and
the B.Coli tests, 6 proved not to be entirely satisfactory.