[Report 1959] / Medical Officer of Health, Oswestry Borough.

  • Oswestry (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1959
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Credit: [Report 1959] / Medical Officer of Health, Oswestry Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (l) Milk & Dairies. Oswestry is in a designated area, which means that all milk sold must he Pasteurised, Tuberculin Tested or Sterilised. No. of registered dairies ..... . . . ..... 3 No. of dairymen and *nilk shops’ holding dealer’s licences for designated milk ....8 No. of dairymen holding supplementary licences for designated milk .6 No. of dairymen holding producer/dealer licences for T.T. milk . . 1 Of recent years there has been a change from locally produced and bottled milk to the sale of milk produced and bottled away from Oswestry in large plants and sold locally by milk retailers. The bulk of milk sold in the town now comes from three sources (i) Whitchurch Dairy (Pasteurised, T.T., Sterilised). (ii) North Staffs. Dairy (Pasteurised, T.T., Sterilised). (iii) Wrexham Dairy (Pasteurised, T.T., Sterilised). Even in a market town like Oswestry, there is only a very limited amount of milk that is produced and bottled on local farms. This bulk handling of milk does keep the process to premises that are concerned only with handling milk, and where the bottle washing and plant steril¬ ising is a well organised routine. In addition, the pasteurisation of the bulk of the milk eliminates certain pathogenic organisms which may be found in milk produced from T.T. herds. , ^