3,000 DOCTORS

Greymouth Evening Star, 10 December 1927, Page 3

3,000 DOCTORS

VISIT BOVRIL FACTORY On the 25th and 26th October, nearly 3,000 Doctors from all parts of Great Britain, visited the great Bovril Factory in Old Street, London. Every county contributed its quota, including doctors from the far North of Scotland, and the remote parts of Devon, Cornwall and Wales. The visitors were welcomed by Sir George Lawson Johnston (Chairman), The Duke of Athol, K.T. (Vice-Chair-man), Sir James Crichton-Browne, M.D.,LL.D.,F.R.5., Lieut.-Gen Sir A. T. Sloggett, K.C.8., K.C.M.G., K.C.V.0., and other Members of the Bovril Board, and were then conducted in parties over the premises. They were greatly impressed by the brightness and airiness of the whole spacious building, and by the strictly hygienic conditions under which Bovril is made, as well as by the ingenious machnery which enables the Company to turn out annually so many millions of the familiar brown bottles. The splendidly equipped laboratories were particularly admired. The processes of manufacture were followed with the keenest interest, from the blending of the extracts and essences in the great steam jacketed pans, each capable of holding the concentrated juices of 300 oxen, and the incorporation with these of the beef fibrin and albumen which are so important a factor in the nutritive value of Bovril, to the automatic filling, capping, labelling and boxing of the bottles. The finished Bovril is conveyed by pipes to the filling machines from the great storage tanks on the floor above, each of these wonderful machines being capable of filling 400 gross of bottles per day. Lunch followed the tour of inspection, at which many doctors who had been fellow students renewed old acquaintanceship and revived college memories.

The final item in the programme, which was also much appreciated, was

a cinematograph display of scientific films illustrating the activities in the blood of various micro-organisms.