[Report 1953] / Medical Officer of Health, Argyll County Council.

  • Argyllshire (Scotland). County Council.
Date:
1953
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Credit: [Report 1953] / Medical Officer of Health, Argyll County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    7 The following table shows the number of registered and exempted premises and the number of milk cows in the various districts of the County: - ! No. Producers No. of Milk Cows District Registered Exempted Registered Premises Exempted Premises Ardnamurchan and North Lorn 21 7 254 46 Cowal 28 8 704 60 Islay 30 8 1644 44 Kintyre 222 3 6273 11 South Lorn 26 12 522 78 Mid-Argyll 28 9 550 64 Mull, Coll and Tiree 15 9 221 43 Totals 4-20 56 10163 =JKT*: r-TWC 346 In all, about 800 routine inspections of registered dairies, exclusive of visits in connection with sampling, vrere carried out by the Divisional Sanitary Inspectors and Milk Officer. The number of producers reported for unsatisfactory milk supplies under the Scottish Milk Testing Scheme -was less than in the previous year. This vra.3 fortunate in more ways than one and particularly from the staffing point of view. It is part of the Milk Officer's duties to visit the farmers reported for unsatisfactory milk supplies in order to investigate the complaints and the time spent in checking the condition of utensils and milking methods generally is considerable. With only one Milk Officer to cover the whole County it is impossible for her to investigate each complaint promptly as she may be in another part of the County on similar, or just as important, duties. This County is much too large and widely scattered for one Milk Officer and during the yean she has had to spend much of her time travelling thousands of miles in an endeavour to give each district some supervision. If the service is to attain any degree of success it is essential that there should be two Milk Officers at least. One is required for ICintyre alone where there are over 200 dairy farms, including 151 farms where Tuberculin Tested Milk is produced. School Milk. Forty samples of school milk were obtained by the Milk Officer during the year and submitted for bacteriological examination. The results were a.s follows: - Type of Milk No. Samples Taken Satisfactory Unsatisfactory Pasteurised 20 19 1 Tuberculin Tested 16 13 3 Tuberculin Tested (Pasteurised) 4 4 - Totals 40 36 4 The number of samples taken is a considerable drop from the previous year's figures and here again the lack of an adequate staff of Milk Officers is to blame.