[Report 1943] / Medical Officer of Health, Bebington Borough.

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

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    The Table below shows the number and results of graded milk samples submitted to the bacteriologists for the ])rescribed tests during the year 1043 :— Accredited Milk Tuberculin Tested T.T. (Certified) •• Pasteurised No. E.xoniiiif'd. II9 * No. Sati.sFiic'tory. 86 I I 4 19 no * Four of these samples of accredited milk w'ere sold bj'- the retailers from whom they were taken, as commercial milk, but were sold to them by the wdiosesalers as accredited milk. These samples satisfied the prescribed tests relating to accredited milk. § Ten of these samples of pasteurised milk w’ere sold by the retailers from wFom they were taken, as commercial milk, but W'ere sold to them by the wholesalers as pasteurised milk. Seven satisfied the prescribed tests relating to pasteurised milk and three failed to satisfy these tests. Food Decontamination. Six squads are trained for dealing with food contamination by gas, and all turn out periodically for practice. Your Chief Sanitary Inspector is Food Decontamination Officer and has trained the squads, and the other three inspectors are .Assistant Food Decontamination Officers. All the personnel (41 in number) are drawn from food premises, and the six squad leaders are :— J. V’. Evans (Butcher). Mrs. Haddock (Greengrocer). Mrs. Coakley (Canteen Assistant). Miss Bithell (Grocer’s Assistant). Miss Western (Grocer’s Assistant). Mr, G. Patterson (Butcher).