London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
City of London 1895
Report on the sanitary condition of the City of London for the year 1895
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milk for sale from such building; and shall
cease to keep milk for sale or to sell milk in such
building until the same has been disinfected
and declared by the Medical Officer of Health
for the City of London to be free from infection.
3. Every Purveyor of milk, or person
selling milk by retail, shall not keep milk for
sale in any place where it would be liable to
become infected or contaminated by gases or
effluvia arising from any sewers, drains, gullies,
cesspools, or closets, or by any offensive effluvia
from putrid or offensive substances, or by impure
air, or by any offensive or deleterious
gases or substances.
4. Every Purveyor of Milk, or person
selling Milk by retail, shall only keep milk for
sale in clean receptacles ; and all utensils used
in connection with the keeping or sale of such
milk shall be at all times kept clean.
5. Every Purveyor of milk, or person
selling milk by retail, shall at all times employ
such means, and adopt such precautions, as