[Report 1948] / Medical Officer of Health, Cumberland County Council.

  • Cumberland County Council
Date:
1948
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Credit: [Report 1948] / Medical Officer of Health, Cumberland County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    72/98 (page 72)
    ('(Hincil took part. Tlu; course was held under the auspices of tlie Central Council for Health Education and to this short course were invited all the canteen supervisors associated with the school meal services and also all known canteen sup- ervisors in the Countv and City, mainly of course, associated with industrial concerns. The course was verj' well attended and, 1 feel, aroused much interest. Milk. 'i'his report marks the swan song of our association as a County Council with the issuing of graded licences, with milk sampling on the present scale, and generally, with the super- \ ision, in association with the local sanitary authorities, of the prcxluctio]! and distribution of milk i hroughou’t the County. By an order in Council dated 25th August, 19-ih, 1st October, 1949, is named as the date on which responsibility for these matters passes with certain exceptions from the Coujity Coun- cil to the Ministry of Agriculture. We relinquish these duties with some regret and not vvithout some apprehension as to the future. 'I'he new regulations regarding milk, just issued, are complicated, and the exact spheres of responsibility as affecting county councils, district councils and the Ministry of Agriculture appear to overlap. The main object of the regulations appears to be to continue and ex})and the campaign for the better keeping (prality of milk. Bacteriological examinations in this respect are in the main to be carried out by the Ministry of Agriculture or by the trade on behalf of the Ministry. Local health authorities and local sanitary authorities will either have to have made available to them on recpiest the results of these investigations, for exam|)le as regards school milk supplies other than pasteurised, or, alternatively, they will also have to undertake such sampling themselves. Tire public h.calth aspect of these regulations apjX'ars to be small and is of course, primarily concerned with, tubercle. In this resjX'ct county coumils and district councils both have duties, and .sam])ling fo'' tubercle also naturally forms a part of the organisation of the divisional inspectors of the IMinistry of Agriculture. To make the regulations effective and to ])ro\’ide an eHicient ser\'ice without overlapping and waste of manpower and travelling, it will clearly be necessary that there should be close co-operation between the various bodies concernctl. ('umberland being an agricnltural county, in which milk production forms (me of the key industries, the campaign.