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INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OF FOOD.
MILK.
14 persons were registered as retail purveyors of milk during the
year.
There are now 145 purveyors of milk on the register and during the
year 362 visits were made to their premises. There are no cowsheds in
the district.
In 1934, licences under the Milk (Special Designations) Order, 1923'
were granted as follows:—
For the sale of Grade A
(Tuberculin Tested)
Milk 23 (including 5 supplementary licences).
For the sale of Pasteurised
Milk 21 „ 4 „ „
For the sale of Certified
Milk 6 „ 3 „ „
For the sale of Grade A
Pasteurised Milk 6 „ 3 „ „
The scheme by which school children who appear to be in some
degree undernourished are supplied with one-third of a pint of milk in
school daily requires that the Medical Officer shall satisfy himself of the
quality of the milk supplied and the conditions under which it is pasteurised
and bottled.
With the exception of one local firm, which supplies milk to one
school only, all the purveyors are large companies who distribute from
6 centres. All were visited and satisfied the Medical Officer's requirements
.
ICE CREAM.
95 visits were made to premises where ice cream is manufactured.
One factory was not kept in a satisfactory condition. A sample of ice
cream from this factory when submitted to analysis showed that the
number of organisms present per cubic centimetre was 297,000 and that