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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Wimbledon 1947
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wimbledon]
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SECTION E. - INSPECTION AND
SUPERVISION OF FOOD.
Milk (Special Designations) Regulations, 1936/46.
Under the Milk (Special Designations) Regulations, 1936/46,
licences were granted to retailers as follows:
Pasteurisers' Licences Nil.
Dealers' Licences—
Tuberculin Tested Milk 6
Pasteurised Milk 12
Supplementary Licences 15
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Twentynine samples of milk were taken for bacteriological examination.
In twentyfive cases the results were satisfactory.
Milk and Dairies Order 1926.
Legal proceedings were taken against a dairyman for failing to
comply with Article 21, i.e. for selling milk in a dirty bottle. A fine
of £15 plus costs amounting to £3 3s. Od. was imposed on the retail
purveyor by the Court.
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