[Report 1943] / School Medical Officer of Health, Exeter.

  • Exeter (England). City Council.
Date:
1943
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Credit: [Report 1943] / School Medical Officer of Health, Exeter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    3. The methods employed for ensuring that the belongings of tenants are free from vermin before removal to Council Houses. In all cases where vermin is proved to exist, articles that cannot be treated with steam are carefully sprayed with solution as described under (2) above and are removed from the premises ; while bedding, clothing, etc., is removed to the steam disinfector and afterwards returned to the new premises. 4. The work of disinfestation is carried out by the Local Authority free of cost. 5. In cases where it is found necessary to disinfest furniture, etc., before the removal of families from unfit houses to Council houses, the latter are visited by a Sanitary Inspector who makes tactful enquiries to ascertain if the measures taken were successful. Up to the present, their visits have been appreciated by the tenants. DAIRIES, COWSHEDS, AND MILKSHOPS. There are now on the register 73 Dairies, Milkshops and ] Milkstores (where cattle are not kept) for the sale of milk by j retail. This is a reduction of 5 from 78 in business last year. Eor the production of milk for sale wholesale and/or retail : there are 40 Dairies where cattle are kept. The Rationalisation of Milk Delivery Scheme came into [ operation on the 28th March, 1943. There are 2 collecting stations and 41 retail producers j functioning in the City, and of the latter 20 occupy farms situated : in the County. The 2 collecting stations receive milk from [ approximately 217 dairy farms, and in addition one of them 3 received a considerable quantity from another station situated ^ in the County. THE MILK (SPECIAL DESIGNATIONS) ORDER, 1936. I Licences for graded milks were issued as follows :— I Tuberculin Tested : Production only — Combined Production and Bottling 1 Dealers and Supplementary 43 Bottling only 1 Accredited : Production only ^ Combined Production and Bottling 1 Dealers 1 I Pasteurising Establishments *4 * Of these, 2 became redundant and ceased to function upon the commencement of the Delivery Rationalisation Scheme, there being at the end of the year 1 H.T.S.T. type and 1 Holder type plant in operation.