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reduced price, and recommends accordingly. These necessitous
people are for the most part discovered in the first instances
at the Infant Welfare Centre or by the Health
Visitors on their rounds. Some are recommended by medical
practitioners. During the year 3 mothers and 13 children
were assisted with free milk, and 21 mothers and 72 children,
with milk at reduced price.
No of mothers receiving free grants of milk 3
No. of children receiving free grants of milk 13
No. of mothers receiving milk at reduced price 21
No. of children receiving milk at reduced price 72
The milk of a good dairy herd contains more than 3 per
cent, of fat. It has been stated with apparently good reason
that a carefully selected well fed and carefully kept herd will
produce in the average for the year more than 4 per cent. fat.
The present fat standard of 3 per cent, should therefore be
raised.
Under the Dairies, Cowsheds and Milkshops Orders no
registration took place during the year and no name was removed
from the register.
The inspection of cowsheds has reference to cubic capacity,
paving of shed and yard, litter, storage and removal of
dung, water supply, drainage, lighting, general sanitation
and method of milking. During the war the extreme shortage
of labour made it well nigh impossible for dairy-farmers
to keep their cowsheds and premises even moderately clean.
From numerous visits which I made to the dairy-farms in
the district I believe that the dairy men did their best to
observe the regulations. Now that the war is over and the
shortage of labour likely to be soon removed we shall look to
them to raise the standard of cleanliness both in animals
and premises much above the level at which it stood during
the later days of the war.
Inspection of meat:—This begins at the slaughterhouse
and takes note of the healthy or other condition of the animal
to be slaughtered, as also the hygienic state of the slaughterhouse
and its surroundings. After the animal is killed tne
carcase and all its parts are carefully examined with a view
to detecting disease or any condition in the meat which would
render it unfit for food. Should such condition be discovered;
the meat is condemned, seized, and submitted to a
magistrate, who orders its destruction. The butchers of