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"Pasteurised" milk is milk which has been
retained at a temperature of not less than 145°F.
and not more than 150°F. for at least 30 minutes
and then immediately cooled to a temperature of
not more than 55°F. The milk at any time before
delivery to the consumer must not contain more
than 100,000 bacteria per millilitre, and the receptacles
must be labelled "Pasteurised milk."
FACTORIES.
There were 232 factories on the Register at
the end of the year as under:—
Bakehouses 17
Laundries 11
Tailors 7
Bootmakers 24
Dressmakers 10
Motor Engineers 38
Builders 27
Electrical and Wireless Engineers 8
Timber Merchants 7
Cycle Repairers 8
Engineers 15
Printers 5
Miscellaneous 55
Total 232
One bakehouse is underground, and was still in
use at the end of the year.
Twenty-eight visits were made to factories and
five to Outworkers' premises, as a result of which
six contraventions were dealt with.
The number of inspections is abnormally low
due to the fact that it was intended to proceed with
this work during the autumn after the new
Factories Act had come into operation, but the
Department was so seriously disorganised by the
National Crisis in September that these duties
could not be proceeded with till 1939.