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INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OF FOOD.
Staff. The inspector under the Food and Drugs Acts
is responsible for the work in connection with the sampling
of milk and other foods, and the veterinary officers and
the meat inspector for the inspection of meat in slaughter-houses.
The sanitary inspectors are responsible for the general supervision
of foods in the shops, on stalls, and in factories, and for the
disposal of condemned foodstuffs. In the preparation of this
section I have had the active support of the officers responsible.
In addition, as a matter of interest, I include in this
section a report from the veterinary officer on that part of his
duties for which he is responsible to the Public Health Committee,
and also the report of the public analyst.
CONTROL OF MILK SUPPLY.
Milk Shops and Dairies.
Milk and Dairies (Consolidation) Act, 1915.
Milk and Dairies (Amendment) Act, 1922.
Milk and Dairies Order, 1926.
During the year the number of inspections of dairies and
milk purveyors' permises was 381. There are now 112 premises
registered as dairies and their occupiers as dairymen, and 660
persons registered as purveyors of bottled milk only.
The bulk of the milk sold in this borough is pasteurised
and sold under licence; some is heat treated, bottled and sold as
sterilised, but a certain quantity of raw milk is being bottled
by retailers. In these cases steam sterilisers for the treatment
of the bottles are insisted upon in compliance with Article 21 of
the Milk and Dairies Order, 1926.
Examination of milk for tubercule. During the year 55
samples of milk were examined for the presence of the tubercule
bacillus. Of this number three samples gave a positive result (see
later).
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