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(h) Pasteurisation of Milk.
There are about 2,000 deaths each year in England and
Wales as a result of bovine tuberculous infection, and about
three-fifths of them are in persons under 15 years of age.
Efficient pasteurisation affords the only protection at
present available to the public against the conveyance of
tuberculosis by milk.
In the scheme of the Ministry of Agriculture with regard
to the registration of tubercle-free herds, it is required that
calves should only be fed with milk which has been pasteurised
or sterilised, or with milk from a tubercle-free cow. Surely
such a requirement is even more necessary for human beings,
especially young children?
Your Council during the year considered representations,
from the People's League of Health, with regard to
pasteurisation. Your Council resolved that it was desirable
that legislation be promoted to render compulsory the
pasteurisation of all milk intended for human consumption.
It was further resolved that a resolution to this effect be
tabled in the name of the Council at the next appropriate
conference at which the Council was represented.
The resolution was duly brought to the notice of the
Conference of the Royal Institute of Public Health, at Harrogate,
in 1935.
(The following sections are contributed by the Chief Sanitary Inspector).
OFFENSIVE TRADES.
During the year the Council sanctioned the establishing
of two Fish Curers, and refused their sanction to the establishing
of three Fish Friers.
THE RENT AND MORTGAGE RESTRICTIONS ACTS,
1920-1923.
During the year fifteen certificates were granted to
tenants and six certificates have been issued to owners upon
their application and completion of the scheduled works.