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Annual Report of the London County Council, 1911.
culossi of the udder he may take samples of the milk of such cow. If it appears 10 the Council that
tuberculosis is caused, or is likely to be caused, to persons residing in the County from the consumption
of milk from any dairy, or from any cow kept therein, the Council may make an order prohibiting
the supply of such milk in the County until the order has been withdrawn, and any person contravening
the order is liable to a penalty not exceeding £5, and for a continuing offence to a daily
penalty not exceeding 40s. Appeal may be made against the Council's order.
On 11th February, 1908, the Council delegated to the Public Health Committee the authority
conferred by Part IV. of this Act, dealing with tuberculous milk, and fixed the 1st July, 1908,
as the date upon which the Act should become operative. The method of procedure adopted is as
follows : Samples are taken by the Council's inspectors from churns of milk consigned from the
country to the various London railway termini, and these are submitted to the Lister Institute for
bacteriological examination. In the case of those samples in respect of which the examination proves
that there is evidence of the presence of tubercle bacilli, a clinical examination of the cows at the dairy
farm from which the milk is consigned is made by a veterinary inspector appointed for the purpose
under the Act, and cows found to have tuberculous udders are certified for the purposes of the Dairies
and Cowsheds Orders and copies of the certificates forwarded to the local sanitary authorities concerned.
During the year 1911, 3,038 samples of milk were taken. The milk had been sent to London
from the following counties : Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Cheshire,
Cornwall, Derbyshire, Devonshire, Dorsetshire, Essex, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Herefordshire,
Hertfordshire, Huntingdonshire, Kent, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Middlesex, Norfolk, Northamptonshire,
Northumberland, Nottinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Rutlandshire, Shropshire, Somersetshire,
Staffordshire, Suffolk, Surrey, Sussex, Warwickshire, Wiltshire, Worcestershire and Yorkshire; the
samples were taken principally from churns at stations of the Great Western, the Great Eastern, the
Great Northern, the Great Central, the Midland, the Metropolitan, the London, Brighton and South
Coast, the London and North-Western, the London and South-Western, the North London, and the
South-Eastern, Chatham and Dover Railway Companies.