[Report 1969] / Medical Officer of Health, Ramsgate Borough.

  • Ramsgate (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1969
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Credit: [Report 1969] / Medical Officer of Health, Ramsgate Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    -2? Vilification certificates It is to be expected that there will be a number of applications for qualification certificates now that landlords are to be enabled to increase the rents of controlled properties in certain circumstances• There had been no such applications up to the end of the year? this was not surprising as any increase in rent cannot take place before 1971 and in some cases January 1972* . -■ There has been a few. combined applications for improvement grant and provisional qualification certificates. INSPECTION 1ND SUPERVISION Of FOOD MILK ’ ' - There is one pasteurising plant operating in the Borough* this plant serves an area extending well beyond the Borough boundaries. All milk is treated by the H.T.S.T. method. Although ultra heat treated milk is on sale within the area* no processing plant is in operation here. Carton packaging continues to be used for distribution through the retail shops* milk deliveries to households and schools are in glass bottles. In spite of the care exercised at the dairy* the dirty* milk bottle continues tp appear at intervals. There must be some lack of vigilance here* it should not .be possible for an unclean milk bottle to reach the filling point, but consumers are not always free from blame. Milk bottles tend to be used as containers for other materials which leave traces behind and which cannot always be removed. Examination and Testing ; Samples of milk are taken at regular intervals at various points in the chain of distribution and sent to the Public Health Laboratory. Preston Hall for methylene blue and phosphatase tests. ■ School milk is sampled as routine and the results of the examination are sent to the Education Authority. Seventy-one samples of pasteurised milk were taken* one of these failed the methylene blue test, two samples of sterilised milk and one sample of ultra heat treated milk were taken, these were satisfactory. Samples of raw, untreated* milk are not being taken, the milk is being delivered to the dairy in bulk by tanker* so that it is impossible to identify milk from an individual farm. food and Drugs Sampling - Milk Forty-three samples of milk were taken and submitted for analysis. Three* of these were found to be unsatisfactory. Sample No. 448 - Channel Islands Milk. fat 4*40%. Solids not fat 8.66%. freezing Point - 0.529°C.
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