§ 9. Sir JOHN HASLAM (for Captain ELLISTON)asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education whether he will direct the attention of local education authorities to the memorandum on Bovine Tuberculosis in Man, issued by the Ministry of Health, with a recommendation that milk provided for school children should be certified Grade A (tuberculin tested) or efficiently pasteurised?
§ The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the BOARD of EDUCATION (Mr. Ramsbotham)Attention was called to the Ministry of Health memorandum on Bovine Tuberculosis in Man, which was issued in 1931, on page 54 of the report of the Chief Medical Officer of the Board of Education on the Health of the School Child, for 1930. It is the practice of the board, in approving proposals by local education authorities for the provision of milk to school children, to urge the authority to make every effort to secure a supply of pasteurised or tuberculin tested milk.
§ Captain HEILGERSIs the hon. Gentleman aware that it is very difficult to obtain Grade A tuberculin tested milk any more, in view of the fact that the medical profession have a preference for dirty milk pasteurised, and that that preference has nearly killed the production of clean milk in this country?