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Hackney 1963
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]
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is not to be removed except to some place specified in the notice. No action
was necessary under this section.
SECTION 29 (Milk and Dairies Regulations )
(a) MILK AND DAIRIES (GENERAL) REGULATIONS 1959. The Department's register of distributors of milk and dairy premises, shows the following entries:-
| Distributors of Milk | |
| (1) Prom dairy premises in the borough | 23 |
| (ii) Prom premises in the borough, other than dairies | 191 |
| 214 | |
| Dairy premises registered | 23 |
Legal proceedings were instituted in the following instance:-
| Fines | Costs | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Failure to ensure cleanliness of | £ | s. | d | £ | s. | d |
| vessel used for containing Milk | 7 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
(b) MILK (SPECIAL DESIGNATION) REGULATIONS, 1963. The following Dealer s (pre packed) licences were issued by the Borough Council
| (i) Untreated | 9 |
| (ii) Pasteurised Milk | 173 |
| (iii) Sterilised Milk .. | 193 |
Two samples of raw milk were submitted to biological examination for
tubercle bacilli with negative results.
"Pasteurised" milk is required to comply with the Phosphatase Test for
adequate heat treatment, and with the Methylene Blue Test for bacterial
cleanliness. "Sterilised" milk is required to comply with the prescribed
turbidity test.
The Public Health Laboratory Service reported that the following samples
satisfied the required tests:-
Pasteurised Milk Phosphatase Test 358
Methylene Blue Test 347
Sterilised Milk Turbidity Test 6
Untreated Methylene Blue Test 4
The following sample was reported as unsatisfactory
Pasteurised Milk Methylene Blue Test 1
A subsequent sample satisfied the Methylene Blue Test.
The Methylene Blue Test on ten samples of Pasteurised Milk were reported
as being void.
The Sale of Milk Regulations, 1939. These Regulations require milk to
contain not less than 3% milk fat and 8,5% milk solids other than milk fat.
Some 3 formal and 103 informal samples were submitted to the Council s Public
Analyst and all complied with the Regulations the average content of these
samples was 3.64 per cent milk fat and 8.84 per cent milk solids other than
milk fat.
SECTION 91 (Powers of sampling) and SECTION 92 (Right to have samples
analysed). An authorised officer of a Council is empowered to procure samples
for analysis or for bacteriological or other examination if he considers such
samples should be analysed, he shall submit them for analysis by the Public
Analyst for the area in which the samples are procured,
SECTIONS 91 and 92. On the 529 samples taken, 327 formal and 202 informal
the Public Analyst reported as follows;