Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report on the sanitary condition of the City of London for the year 1898
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Regulations prescribing precautions to be taken by
Purveyors of milk, and persons selling milk by
retail, against infection or contamination.
28.—Every Purveyor of milk, or person selling milk by
retail, shall, immediately on any outbreak of infectious or
contagious disease within the building or upon the premises
in which he keeps milk, or amongst the persons employed in
his business, give notice of such outbreak to the Town Clerk
of the City of London, at his Office in Guildhall.
29.—Every Purveyor of milk, or person selling milk
by retail, shall, immediately on such outbreak coming to his
knowledge, remove all milk for sale, and all utensils for
containing 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.
30.—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.
81.—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.
32.—Every Purveyor of milk, or person selling milk
by retail, shall at all times employ such means, and adopt