[Report 1947] / School Medical Officer, Somerset County Council.

  • Somerset (England). County Council.
Date:
1947
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Credit: [Report 1947] / School Medical Officer, Somerset County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    '['able Ill gives llie various kinds of milk sup[)lied, llie percentage of each kind coiisuuiod and comparative, infurjiialion l•especting tlie year iU3d with those of 11)45-46-47. Table III. 1934 1945 1946 1947 Figures. Figures. Figures. I'Tgurea. A. Past./H.T. ... 35% 53.0% 71.3% 77.4% 13. T.T. . 5% 20.0% 22.3% 20.0% C. Accredited ... — 17.0% 2.0% 1.1% D. Undesignated (lioiledj ... iH% 9.0% 4.3% 1.4% E. National Dried IMilk ... — — 0.92% 0.004% E. No Milk . ... 35% 0.4% 0.08% — Abhri’iiiations. Past. = Pasteurised. Ace. = .\cereditcd. H.T.=Heat Treated. HD. = Uiulesigiiated. T.T. =Tubereulin Tested. N.D.M. = National Dried Milk. Pi'ogiess luis been maintained in impi’oviiig the sup])ly of safe milk to schools as Table ill shows. Only 2.6 per cent, or 4,325 children out of a total of 51,503 are receiving milk of a type other than Pasteurised, Heat Treated or Tuberculin Tested. Every endeavour is made to provide all pupils with the grades mentioned. Owing to the isolated ])osition of some of the schools, it may be that we have nearly reached the hunt of what it is possible to do in implementing what is stipulated in the Aiinistry of Education Circular llO/lb in present circumstances. Head teachers at schools receiving a supply of .Vccredited or Tlndesignated milk are warned that this milk must be boiled before it is given to the children. Aly dejau'tmenl is invoked in a considerable amount of work in connectioii will) ihe .Milk in Schools Scueme. .\part from dealing with the voluntary resig¬ nations of Dairymen and finding new and I'eiiable sulistitutes who will supply a safe milk, the milk of all suppliers is sampled freciuently atid advisory visits made to dairies when sam])le.s do not reach the desired standard. Milk bottles and containers are also examined and tested periodically respecting sterility. PROVISION OF MEALS FOR SCHOOL CHILDREN. ITiis .scheme, administered by the l<aluc‘aiion Department, continues to show- results in the im])ro\ing state of nutrition and ])bysi(pie of the childnai. There is no doubt that it also adfls something to the social experience of the child.