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Heston and Isleworth 1925
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Heston and Isleworth]
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INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OF FOOD.
The following is the record of inspection of food premises : —
| No. of Inspections made. | |
|---|---|
| Meat | 1513 |
| Fish | 274 |
| Provisions | 415 |
| Greengroceries and Fruit | 387 |
| Hawker's Food Stuffs | 355 |
| Number of other Food Inspections | 109 |
Milk.
No material change has been observed during the past year in
the conditions under which cow-keeping and milk-vending are
carried on in the district. 277 inspections were carried out in
respect of cowsheds, dairies and milkshops.
Unofficial milk analyses are made by the Medical Officer of
Health.
The standard of the milk supply in the district on the whole
has improved. Very little of the milk which is sold in the district
now is not pasteurised, although only two firms have applied for a
Licence to sell " pasteurised " milk under the Milk (Special Designations)
Order, 1923.
There have been immense advances in recent years in dealing
with milk, which before the War was sold under most unsuitable
and often filthy conditions, the farmers mainly being concerned
in supplying the bulk of a liquid which would not go sour before
being consumed, and which did not contain too obvious gross impurities,
in fact, the best definition which was given of milk was
that of Mr. Wilfred Buckley before the war, that it was " a fourpenny
opalescent fluid."