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During 1904 a cow (Shorthorn) belonging to a dairy in Tulse
Hill, was reported by the London County Council Veterinary
Inspector as suffering from mastitis, and in view of the danger
of such being tubercular the milk from that cow was not used
for human consumption.
DAIRIES, MILK-SHOPS AND MILK-STORES.
Five new Milk-shops and Milk-stores have been registered
during 1904, and all existing ones (468) have been under
inspection, as required.
Municipal Infants Milk Depot.
The Borough Council is to be congratulated upon their public
spirit in having decided on July 14th, 1904, to establish and
maintain, in the Borough of Lambeth, an Infants Milk Depot, even
though the expenses connected therewith will certainly be
surcharged by the District Auditor, and the disallowance may
not be afterwards remitted by the Local Government Board.
The value of such a depot in assisting to lessen the infantile
mortality of a district, is admitted by all, and such an institution
must, therefore, claim the sympathy of all persons interested in
disease-prevention. It follows, as a corollary, that Metropolitan
Sanitary Districts, like outside (provincial) districts should be
empowered by law to provide, at their discretion, out of the
Rates, a depot for the preparation and sale of sterilised and
humanised milk for the food of infants; and with such an end in
view a Conference on the Administration of the Public Health
(London) Act, 1891, held in London on July 7th and 18th, 1904,
decided unanimously to request the London County Council to
insert a clause in their next General Powers Bill to confer such
power upon the Borough Councils of the Metropolis. The
Local Government Board would appear to sympathise with
Sanitary Authorities in this respect. The Borough Council