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Westminster 1896

Annual report upon the public health & sanitary condition of the united Parishes of St. Margaret & St. John, Westminster for the year 1896

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The population of the street is about 277.

Years.No. of Cases of Infectious Diseases occurring during the year.
189224 (this includes 18 cases of measles)
18935 (including one case of measles)
18941
18955
18968

Dairies, Cowsheds and Milkshops Orders of
1885 and 1886.
No. 29 of the Regulations made under the above Orders
dealing with outbreaks of infectious or contagious disease
within the building or in connection with premises upon which
milk is sold provides that:—
"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 district to be free from
infection."
In connection with the above Order the Medical Officer of the
London County Council writes :—
"The practice in dealing with this matter hitherto has been
that the certificate of the Medical Officer of Health of the district
has been sent to this department and the milk vendor has then
been informed that he may resume the sale of milk. This procedure,
however, gives rise to delay, and inasmuch as it is
desirable that milk vendors should have every assistance that
can be given them under these circumstances, I think it would
be better if in future the certificate of freedom from infection
were transmitted directly by you to the milk vendor, in order
that he may then resume the sale of milk and be able to exhibit
his right to do so to the Council's inspector when he makes his
visit to the premises."
As the above suggestion will materially assist purveyors of
milk, it will henceforth be adopted in the United Parishes.
Mews, Cow-houses and Slaughter-houses, &c.
During the year these have all been duly inspected, and in
only one case had the Public Health Committee any objection
to offer to the renewal of the license of any cow-house and that
was in the case of No. 28, Winchester-terrace, where various
defects were found. Upon the defects being remedied, however,
the Committee offered no objection to the renewal of the
license.