[Report 1936] / Medical Officer of Health, Cambridgeshire County Council.

  • Cambridgeshire (England). County Council
Date:
1936
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Credit: [Report 1936] / Medical Officer of Health, Cambridgeshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    V Bacteriological Examination for Estimation of Cleanliness.—This was again undertaken by all the Sanitary Authorities of the area except the Chesterton Rural District Council. In Cambridge, 55 samples of graded milk (Certified 12, Tuberculin Tested 13, Accredited 7 and Pasteurised 23) were examined bacteriologically. All except two samples of Tuberculin Tested, one of Accredited and two of Pasteurised reached the required standard. Forty-two samples of “ ordinary ” milk were also examined for cleanliness in Cambridge. Twenty-nine reached the Accredited standard and sixteen reached a particularly high standard of cleanliness (bacillus coli absent in one tenth of a c.c. and bacterial count under 50,006). These results are very similar to those of the previous year. In Newmarket Rural District, 30 samples were examined and 15 reached Accredited standard. This proportion does not differ materially from that of the previous year. In South Cambridgeshire, 43 samples were examined. Of these 21 were taken at the request of the Ministry of Health from two producers holding licences for the pro- duction of Tuberculin Tested Milk and all but two reached the required standard. Of the remaining 22, eleven reached Accredited standard, again a similar proportion to that of 1935. The value of the above examinations does not, of course, consist in the mere ascertainment of good and bad producers. Its real worth lies in the education of the bad producers which follows the findings, and it is known that definite im])rovement has followed the demonstration of the results of the examination and suggestions for their rectification in some instances. I