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Sanitary Administration.
3. No handling of the milk at the farm beyond transfer from
sterilised pail to sterilised churn.
4. Rapid transit from farm to town in clean cool vans.
5. Distribution of milk to consumer in sterilised vessels, with
as little handling as possible.
Farmers do not understand sterilisation; this can only be done
by steam jets. They only strain the milk with the result that,
owing to the strainer getting foul, strained milk is 40 times worse
than unstrained milk and sours more quickly.
We are selling dried milk to the people generally, when, owing
to deficiency in the local retail supply, they are going short ; there
being no priority scheme in this district at present.
The National Food Kitchen has proved a very successful
undertaking. The Central Kitchen in Mortlake, and the
6 depots in the district, have been on the whole well-served,
and must have effected considerable economy of food and fuel in the
homes. The quality of the food is excellent, and the cooking also.
All classes of the community have availed themselves of the advantages
supplied by the Kitchen.
SANITARY ADMINISTRATION.
The water supply is that of the Metropolitan Water Board and
continues to be of a high standard of purity.
Sewerage is conducted on the water-carriage system with
separate pipes for storm water.
The sewage is dealt with at the works of the Barnes and
Richmond Joint Station on the boundary of the Urban District and
a clean effluent discharged into the Thames. This has been gone
into in detail in a previous report.
It is hoped that the street scavenging and dust-bin refuse will
shortly be conveyed by motor vehicles to the Council's Destructor.
The question of destruction of refuse versus salvage is now
engaging the attention of the Council.
All places where food is stored, prepared or sold, have been
visited by the Inspectors who report more fully elsewhere.
Structural and sanitary defects found on house inspection have