View report page

96
V.-FOOD.
§ 1.—FOOD PREMISES.
DAIRYMEN AND DAIRIES.
Dairymen.—Section 34 of the Contagious Diseases Animals Act, 1878, under
which the General Orders of 1885 and 1886, as to Dairies, Cowsheds, and
Milkshops were made by the Privy Council and the Local Government Board
respectively, was repealed, as to London, by Sub-section 1 of Section 142 of
the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, and was re-enacted as Section 28 of
the same Act, but under Sub-section 7 of Section 142 of the same Act, the
existing General Orders and Regulations made thereunder passed as unrepealed,
and to be read as if the corresponding provisions of the Public Health (London)
Act, 1891, Section 28, were mentioned therein or referred to, instead of the
repealed provisions. Article 6 of the General Order of 1885 requires that all
purveyors of milk shall be registered with the Local Authority, and the Local
Authority in 1885 and 1886 was the Metropolitan Board of Works, but was
displaced in 1889 by the London County Council under the Local Government
Act of 1888, and in the Public Health (London) Act of 1891,
Section 28 (1) (a) it is expressly enacted that the Local Government Board
may order the registration with the London Courtly Council of all dairymen, and
by Sub-section 1 of Section 5 of the London Government Act of 1899, the
powers of the County Council under Section 28 of the Public Health (London)
Act, 1891, of registering dairymen, were transferred to the Borough Councils.
In this manner is the duty placed upon the Borough Council to enforce the
registration and to keep and revise a Register of Dairymen, and in addition to
enforce by periodical inspection the Regulations with regard to Dairies.
By Section 141 of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, Interpretations,
the expression "dairyman" includes any cowkeeper, purveyor of milk, or
occupier of a dairy, and the expression "dairy" includes any farm, farmhouse,
cowshed, milkstore, milkshop, or other place from which milk is supplied or in
which milk is kept for the purpose of sale.
Dairies.—By Section 6 (4) of the London Government Act, 1899, it is
enacted that it shall be the duty of the Borough Council to enforce within
their Borough the bye-laws and regulations for the time being in force with
respect to dairies and milk, and with respect to slaughterhouses, knackers'
yards, and offensive businesses.
There are not any bye-laws in force with respect to dairies and milk, but it
is the duty of the Borough Council to enforce the existing regulations of the
London County Council, which were originally framed by the Metropolitan
Board of Works and taken over by the London County Council under the
Local Government Act of 1888.
The following are the statutory Provisions, Orders, Regulations, and
Transfers by which this is effected:—
A.—Dairies, Cowsheds, and Milkshops.—Section 34 of the Contagious Diseases
Animals Act of 1878 (41 & 42 Vic. C. 74).
B, —The Dairies, Cowsheds and Milkshops Order of 1885.