[Report 1942] / Medical Officer of Health, Staffordshire County Council.

  • Staffordshire (England). County Council.
Date:
1942
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Credit: [Report 1942] / Medical Officer of Health, Staffordshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (ii) By arrangements made with the majority of the District Councils, the County staff undertake the sampling of milk as it is being retailed to the public, i.e., street samples. The appropriate duties in connection with the above are assigned to the Sanitary Inspectors and Milk Sampling Officers of the Public Health Department and normally there are four of each, the former also undertaking other work of a public health nature. In view of the war, at the end of 1941 these staffs had been reduced to two and three respectively, but as far as possible efficient supervision is being maintained. Details of the work during 1942 are given in the succeeding paragraphs. Street Sampling. The County Council are ordinarily responsible for this purpose for the whole of the Administrative County with the exception of the Municipal Boroughs of Newcastle and Rowley Regis and the Urban District of Brierley Hill. In addition, by arrangement, the County Council staff undertake street sampling for the Rowley Regis Municipal Council, one of the separate Food and Drugs Authorities. In the following tables the numbers of samples of ordinary and specially designated milks taken during the year in the area for which the County Council is normally responsible are shown, together with the results of the bacteriological and biological tests carried out in the County Laboratory. In the table of ordinary milk the numbers of samples taken in the various Sanitary Districts of the County are indicated.