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periodically inspected during the year, and notices
issued by the Sanitary Inspector where necessary. The
structural conditions on the whole are satisfactory,
but in some instances the cleanliness of the sheds leaves
much to be desired. This point, together with conditions
of storage by retailers, continues to receive attention.
With a view to promoting more cleanly conditions in
the production, storage and distribution of milk in the
district, the Council have recently, acting on my advice,
procured a sufficient quantity of circulars prepared by
the Joint Committee on Milk of the National Health
Society and the National League for Physical
Education and Improvement, and containing brief
instructions, in classified form, for ensuring the supply
of clean milk. Three separate circulars have been
obtained, and are now about to be distributed to (a)
housewives and consumers, (b) distributors and
retailers, (c) farmers and other milk producers. It
is hoped the educational effect of these circulars will
justify the slight cost.
The question of the milk supply is one which is
rapidly being recognised as of national importance, due
in considerable measure to the presence in our midst
of an insidious infectious disease—tuberculosis—which,
by a general consensus of medical and scientific opinion,
is largely spread by the medium of milk, and which is