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SECTION E.
INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OF FOOD.
Milk.
It is with a note of regret that the departure of Twickenham's sole remaining milch cow
has to be recorded. When this is contrasted with the 145 cows, which provided the greater
part of the milk consumed in the district in the year 1910 when I first became your Medical
•Officer of Health, the change in the character of the area can be appreciated.
Milk is now delivered almost entirely in glass bottles, but the number of persons who have
applied for registration to sell milk in sealed cartons tends to increase.
No bacteriological examinations of milk samples were made.
At the end of the year the register was as follows:—
Cowkeepers 2 (No cows kept)
Dairymen 15
Purveyors of milk 31
Milk under special designations was sold by dairymen as follows:—
Certified milk 9
Grade " A" milk 1
Grade " A " tuberculin tested 9
Pasteurised 9
Licensed to bottle Grade "A" T.T. milk 1
Licensed to pasteurise milk 1
Meat.
Although some registered slaughter-houses remain in the Borough, most of them have
not been used for a very considerable period, and the amount of slaughtering done locally is
negligible.
No sei7Aire of unsound or diseased meat was made, but 101 lbs. of beef was surrendered
during the year.
There are 41 butchers' shops in the Borough, which were kept under close supervision,
290 visits being paid for this purpose by the Sanitary Inspectors.
Other Foods.
Regular supervision of other shops from which foodstuffs were sold was also exercised,
the following visits being paid for this purpose:—restaurants and eating house kitchens and
grocers' shops, 323 visits; greengrocers' shops, 193 visits; fish shops, 95 visits.
SECTION F.
PREVALENCE OF AND CONTROL OVER INFECTIOUS AND OTHER DISEASES.