[Report 1955] / Medical Officer of Health, Staffordshire County Council.
- Staffordshire (England). County Council
- Date:
- 1955
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1955] / Medical Officer of Health, Staffordshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Follow up ” and/or Appeal to Cow ” samples were taken in the case of 19 samples all of which v,^ere found to be genuine. Six samples were noted down for further sampling. Action was taken with regard to 15 samples. Fifty-nine samples of Designated milk were found to be adulterated, viz. : 34 samples of Tuberculin Tested Milk and 2 samples of Channel Island Tuberculin Tested Milk were found to contain added water. Seven samples of Tuberculin Tested, 11 of Channel Inland Tuberculin Tested and 1 of Channel Island Milk were deficient in fat. Two samples of Tuberculin Tested Milk were deficient in fat and contained added water and 2 samples of Tuberculin Tested Milk were deficient in fat and solids-not-fat. With regard to 3 samples of Designated Milk, repeat samples taken from the same sources were found to be genuine. Five samples were noted down for further sampling. Cautions were issued to 2 vendors against 2 samples where slight deficiencies were apparent. Ten samples were proved to be naturally poor by “ Appeal- to-Cow samples. Three hundred and seventeen samples of Milk were below the presumptive standard. Of these, 220 were in respect of samples which were found by the Freezing Point (Hortvet) test not to be adulterated with added water although below standard in solids-not-fat. Fifty-nine samples which were low in fat and 38 samples deficient in both fat and solids-not-fat were found to be due to natural causes. Proceedings. During the year proceedings have been instituted in respect of 15 samples of Milk, 23 samples of Tuberculin Tested Milk and 4 samples of Channel Island Milk adulterated with added water. Fines amounting to Os. Od. were imposed, together with /,T50 12s. Od. special costs. “ Appeal to Cow ” Samples.—Of the 225 “ Appeal to Cow ” samples taken, 61 were found to be naturally poor in solids-not-fat, 44 naturally poor in fat and 27 naturally poor in both fat and solids-not-fat. The average composition of the milks of all grades, including “ Appeal to Cow ’’ samples, was :— Fat Solids-not-fat ... 8*65^/ } Total Solids — 12.27% Of the 3,688 samples of milk of all grades, passed as genuine, 220 (6.0 per cent.) were naturally poor in solids-not-fat, their Freezing Point (Hortvet) showing that they were genuine. Fifty-nine samples (1.6%) were naturally poor in fat and 38 (i.0%) were naturally poor in both fat and solids-not-fat, the Freezing Point (Hortvet) and “ Appeal to Cow ” samples proving them to be genuine. The poor quality of the 317 samples which failed to reach the low minimum .standard of 3.0% fat or 8.5% solids-not-fat, but were passed as genuine, is further emphasised when the average quality of all sam])les is noted, namely, 3.62% of fat and 8.65% of solids-not-fat.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30132277_0019.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
