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23
Total No. of Temporary Dwellings erected up to
31st December, 1952.
Arc on 132
Aluminium 70
2 year Huts 126
328
No. of 2 year Hut3 demolished during 1952 2
SECTION E.
INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OP POOD.
(a) Milk Supplyo
All milk supplies in the town are brought in from
outside sources, there being no milch herds in the Borough.
All known sources of supply are regularly sampled- The
quality generally has proved to be satisfactory.
Under the provisions of the Milk (Special Designations)
(Special Areas) Order, 1951, the Borough of Kingston forms
part of Specified Area No® 1. By the provisions of the
Order, it is an offence to sell in the Borough milk which
is not either Pasteurised, Sterilised or Tuberculin Tested.
The sale of raw undesignated milk is therefore entirely
prohibited within the Borough.
(b) Designated Milks.
The following table shows the number and type of
licences issued by your Corporation during 1952, under the
provisions of the Milk (Special Designations) Regulations.,
All the licences were in force at the end cf the year.
Pasteurised
Sterilised
Tuberculin
Tested
To Pasteurise
1
-
-
To Deal
9
7
5
Supplementary
9
7
8
(c). Bacteriological Examination of Milk.
During the year, 103 samples of milk were sent to the
Public Health Laboratory at Epsom for examination. The
total of 103 was made up as follows
Pasteurised 82
T.T.(Pasteurised) 13
Sterilised 8
The Pasteurised Milk was submitted for the phosphatase
and methylene blue tests and the Sterilised Milk for the
turbidity test.
Only one sample of Pasteurised Milk failed to pass
the phosphatase test, demonstrating a fault in pasteurisation.
Of the hundreds of samples taken from this particu-