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Fried Fish Shops.—Applications periodically are made for the establishment of fried fish
premises, but the Council still hold to the policy of spacing them out and controlling the supply in
the district, thus ensuring two things : —
1. Control of the offensive trade, and
2. The quality of the goods supplied.
Milk.—I want again to emphasise the extent of sale of sterilised milk. The amount that
the public purchases has forced into the market well-known purveyors who have done their best
to keep out of it.
The point which seems to be of paramount importance in the sale of sterilised milk is the
homogenisation. Cream-line pasteurised milk can never be re-assembled so as to give a proper
mixture of the cream with the milk from which it has separated out.
There is no doubt, to my mind, that homogenised milk makes a far better cup of tea and
coffee, and there is also the fact that the housewife claims that homogenised makes far better milk
puddings than the ordinary pasteurised milk, and it is to this fact I think must be attributed the
enormous sale of sterilised milk.
In addition to a note of the number of samples of milk taken under the Food and Drugs Act
for analysis, I have received the following report from the County Medical Officer with regard to
the action taken to safeguard the milk supply of the district:—
" During the year 1934, seventeen samples of milk were taken from retailers in the
district. These samples were submitted to the Lister Institute for animal inoculation tests,
but in none of these cases was the presence of tubercle bacilli demonstrated.
Five cows were reported by owners as showing symptoms suspicious of tuberculosis
and were examined by one of the County Council's veterinary surgeons. One proved
positive to the tuberculin test and the others showed clinical symptons of tuberculosis. All
were slaughtered under the Tuberculosis Order, 1925, of the Ministry of Agriculture.
Routine examination of milch cattle was carried out during the year by Mr. R. Wooff,
M.R.C.V.S., the County Council's whole time veterinary inspector, and 616 inspections of
cows were made. None of these cows was found to be suffering from tuberculosis."
669 inspections were carried out in respect of cowsheds, dairies and milkshops.
Unofficial milk analyses are made by the Medical Officer of Health.

Meat Inspection.
1. Meat Inspection.—This is still kept at a very high pitch of efficiency. The Chief
Sanitary Inspector and the District Sanitary Inspectors hold special certificates for the meat inspection.
Slaughter-houses and butchers' shops are visited periodically.
There are now 8 slaughter-houses (4 registered and 4 licensed), in use in the district, and
each slaughter-house received on an average 9 visits per month. There were 67 butchers' shops
in the district at the end of 1934.
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