[Reports and Appendices] of the Irish Milk Commission, 1911.

  • Great Britain. [Royal] Commission on the Irish Milk Supply.
Date:
1913
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Credit: [Reports and Appendices] of the Irish Milk Commission, 1911. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SMITH, J. Ij.—continued. Licensing instead of registiatiou under the Dairies Order recommended, 32678-80. The effect of the. proposed change on the milk supply is not a matter for the Local Govern- ment Board, 32681-4. Representations have been made as to the unfair- ness of not making the Dairies Order appli- cable to home butter-makers, 32685-8. Considered as a public health question, the supervision of the milk supply is of far greater importance than that of the butter supply, 32689. 32806-10. The danger from butter is slight, 32690-3, 32817-21: the danger from milk is serious, 32694-6. The objection to extending the Order to home butter-makers is the additional work that would be involved, 32802-5. It would be inconsistent to have whole-time veteri- nary inspectors under the Dairies Order if the medical officer of health remained a part-time ofi&cer, 32696-701: need of these officers being in an independent position, 32702-4, 32836-9, 32843. Policy of Local Government Board when dealing with applications of municipal and urbaii autho- rities for power to inspect outside dairies, 32705-13. The slaughter of cows with tuberculous udders shouhl be made compulsory, 32714-8. Power of Local Government Board to compel a local authority to offer an adequate salary to a veterinary inspector, 32718A-21. Well-paid inspectors, cases of, 32727-31. The Local Government Board have no power over creameries, 32723-4. Power of Local Government Board to require local authorities to act on the reports of their officers under the Dairies Order, 82751-6. There should be no difficulty in administering regu- lations re public health and the health '.A' cattle by the Local Government Board and the Department of Agriculture acting sepa- rately, but harmoniously, 32732-50. The two departments do act in consultatirn, 32748-9, 32834-5. Widal Test. There is no right to apply it compul- sorily, 32757-64: nor to interfere with the liberty of a known typhoid carrier, 32766. There is limited power to isolate contacts, 32765. Power to deal with milk suspected of causing infec- tious disease: limiting power of the Infectious Disease (Prevention) Act, 1890, 32767-70, 32783-93. STERILISATION. All milk for children should be boiled, 27223-7. Milk sterilised by peroxide of hydrogen: alleged as a cause of scurvy rickets, 30906. Sterilised milk should be labelled as such, 30955. Milk should be raise<l to boiling point and then used, 31733-4. Preferable to the introduction of lactic acid bacilli, 31747-52. Rickets and scui-vy not caused by the use of steri- lised milk, 31753. Sterilised food is not good for children continuously, 32158: but to avoid danger to young children milk should be sterilised, 32155-8. STEWART, JAMES, J.P. (representing the Strabane No. 1 Rural District Council). There is no scarcity of milk, 29934-8, 29964. 29974. Milk production and calf-rearing are the principal occupations in the district, 29931-2. Milk is sold or made into butter at home rather than sent to a creamery, 29933, 29987-9. The Dairies Order is enforced, 29939-47. Winter dairying is followed and found to pav, 29950- 61, 30002-7. The existence of creameries has not caused a shortage of milk for labourers, because farmers suppiv them, 29964, 29980-4; Where farmers chum Sunday's milk, there is a suffi- cient supply of buttermilk, 29964, 29975. Separated milk is used as a substitute for butter- milk. 29973. ■ ' • STEWART, JAMES, J.V.—contimied. . , . By keeping milk records has been able to get rid of poor milkers. 29965-70, 29993-6. ■ The average yield per cow has been raised from 300 to 500 . gallons, 29967. . Goats are objectionable because destructive, 29976-9. . The consumption of butter locally has increased latterly, 30023-5. 30035-6, T. TALBOT, LADY (Milk Institute, Melbourne). The problem in Australia is how to secure a whole- some milk supply for children, 30523-4. Circumstances leading to the creation of the Insti- tute, 30525. The Institute was launched to provide pure milk for (chiefly) sick and necessitous infants, 30525, 30579-91. The consequent reduction in infant mortality is very great, 30525. - - Subscriptions to the Institute are made by Govern- ment, the municipality and private persons, 30525, 30549-56. 30640-7. The Director of Agriculture is on the Committee, 30555. The women have been interested in the question, 30525, 30653-4. I'niversitv extension lectures given to women on the chemistry of milk, 30525, 30633-6. The work of the Institute has improved the methods of commercial vendors, 30565-6. ]\ Tel bourne's milk suppiv: condition of. 30598-609, 30651-7. TEA. Is given to children out of feeding bottles, 2C842-3. Excessive use of stewed tea, 26531, 28150-4. Tea given to children, 27868-9. No food value in tea, 28744. TILLIE, ALDERMAN MARSHALL, D.L. (represent- ing the Londonderry Corporation). Health of factory operatives good, 29359-69. Advocates establishment of milk depots, 29369-70, 29373-5. Objects to the taxation of milk carts coming into Derry, 29376-80. More employment for women than men in Derry, 29381-94. ' TROTTER, A. M., M.R.C.V.S. (Chief Veterinary Inspector, Glasgow). From 70 to 80 per cent, of cows re-act, 30983-96. Lack of encouragement to a cowkeeper to have his herd tuberculin tested, 30997-9. Power to compel removal of tuberculous cows inside or outside the city, 31000-7. The control over the citv milk supply is exercised by visitation, 31027-31. By keeping milk records one farmer turned a loss into a profit, 31015-9. Would have cows registered, 31040-1. Incidence of tuberculosis of the udder among cows, 31043. To get rid of tuberculosis among cattle would applv the tuberculin test and kill off reactors, 31044-60. TUBERCULIN TEST. Reliability of, 30800-4, 31174-81, 32008-14, 32965-6. Absolutely reliable for cows mider 7 or 8 years . old, 31773-6, 31799-801. For cows over 8 years old the error is easily cor- rected bv a competent veterinary surgeon by observation, 31774. The test should only be applied by qualified per- sons. 31776, 31792-3. Advantage of applying the test to all cattle at an early age, 31779. Effects of repeated applications of the test, 31786-91. Elimination of tuberculosis from one herd by use of the test. 31794-8. Pedigree stock should be treated specially, 31/8o.