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SECIIOM E.
INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OF FOOD.
(a) Milk Supply.
The following statistics relate to the sale of milk in the
area:
Registration particulars;
Number of premises registered:
(a) Selling loose milk 13
(b) Selling in bottles and sealed containers 36
( c) Selling in sealed cartons only (B.D.Milk) 31
TOTAL 80
In addition to the above, 11 persons are registered as
"purveyors of milk" working from registered premises outside the
Borough.
There are no cowkeepers or farms within the Borough.
Milk (Special Designations) Order, 1936.
The following licences were issued by the Council under
the above-mentioned Order:
Number of Dealers' Licences to sell:
(a) Tuberculin Tested Milk 7
(b) Accredited Milk 1
( c) Pasteurised Milk 17
(b) Meat and Other Foods.
The major portion of the meat supply to the Borough cornea
through the Central Meat Market of London, but in addition there
is one wholesale distributing, depot located in the Brentford
"Wholesale Fruit and Vegetable Market,
There are only four private slaughter-houses operating in the
Borough in a small way, and in two only arc cattle slaughtered in
very moderate numbers.
(o) and (d) Adulteration etc.
This Work is in the hands of the Middlesex County Council,
and no samples were submitted to the County Analyst by this
Authority.
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(e) Nutrition - Dissemination of Knowledge.
Ho special action was taken in this respect beyond that the
, nutritional value of various foods is taught to children at the
Domestic Subjects Centres and lectures arc given to mothers attending
the Maternity and Child Welfare Clinics by the Health Visitors and
to School Children by the Dental Surgeons.