[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Ilford] page 30

Ilford 1949

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Ilford]

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Table: The following results were obtained:

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The following results were obtained:

Grade of Milk or Ice Cream	Total	Satisfactory	Unsatisfactory	Remarks on unsatisfactory results
Tuberculin Tested	2	2	—	—
Tuberculin Tested	14	14	—	—
(Pasteurized) Milk Tuberculin Tested (Certified) Milk.	15	12	3	One sample failed to satisfy the Methylene Blue Reduction test and all failed to satisfy the Coliform Test. The County Medical Officer was communicated with in all cases. Further samples proved satisfactory.
Pasteurized Milk	71	69	2	Both samples failed to satisfy the Methylene Blue Reduction test. The retailers were communicated with and resampling ordered at a later date. Further samples proved satisfactory.
Sterilized	21	21	—	—
Heat-Treated Milk	18	17	1	The sample failed to satisfy the Methylene Blue Reduction test. The retailer was communicated with and further samples proved satisfactory.
Ungraded Milk	16	13	3	One of these samples was of
Ungraded Milk				milk as received from farms in Essex and had high Bacterial content. Of the other 2 samples one failed to satisfy the Methylene Blue Reduction test, and the other had high Bacterial content. The retailers were communicated with and resampling was ordered. Further sa mples proved satisfactory.
Ice Cream	140	113	27	In four cases supplies were received from outside the Borough, and the local Medical Officers of Health were communicated with. In the other cases the retailers were communicated with and the Sanitary Inspectors visited the premises to check the arrangements for storage, etc. Further available samples proved satisfactory.
(iv) Biological Tests.—30 samples of milk were submitted to a biological test for tuberculosis, none of which was found positive.