[Report 1923] / Medical Officer of Health and Sanitary / Public Health Inspector, Peterborough City.

  • Peterborough (England). City Council. nr 94004832.
Date:
1923
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Credit: [Report 1923] / Medical Officer of Health and Sanitary / Public Health Inspector, Peterborough City. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    FOOD SUPPLY. Public Health (Milk and Cream) Regulations, 1912 and 1917. Report for the Year ended 31st December, 1923. 1.—Milk and Cream not sold as preserved cream. (a) Number of Samples examined for the presence of a Pre- servative. <50 • • • Cream Milk (b) Number in which Pre¬ servative was reported to be present, and percentage found in each sample. nil. nil. 2.—Cream sold as preserved cream. (a) Instances in which samples have been submitted for analysis to ascertain if the statements on the label were correct : One. Satisfactory. Receptacle labelled. Milk and Dairies (Amendment) Act, 1922. The Health Committee devoted a large amount of time and atten¬ tion during 1923 to matters arising out of the licensing of purveyors and retailers of milk in this Borough, and the Officers to the inspec¬ tion of premises and personnel and animals of such. No applications were received during 1923 for licences to sell milk as Grade A. Certified &c. under the Milk (Special Designations) Order, 1923. It was hoped that one large combine distributor would have applied for a licence to sell pasteurized milk, inasmuch as the firm already does something in this, direction, but being by the “flash” process, and therefore out of conformity to the regulations, the process cannot be recognized for licensing. Officially “certified” or Grade A., or any specially designated (clean) milk cannot there¬ fore be obtained in Peterborough. The nearest sources are Cambridge on one side and Grantham on the other. This is not creditable to Peterborough and District, especially as there is insistence in certain quarters that the District is an agricul¬ tural one of no mean order. Why not bacteriologically clean milk than^ as one of the manifestations of superiority ?
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