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(b) Or contaminated by any offensive effluvia from putrid
or offensive substances of any kind ;
(c) Or contaminated by any impure air or any offensive
gases or substances.
5th. Milk from diseased or unhealthy cows must on no account
whatever be mixed with other milk, and must not be sold
or used for human food. It is the business of every milk
seller to take steps to ensure that the milk he receives
from the country is pure and free from such infection.
The Council have also resolved that from time to time examinations
shall be made of milk sold in Finsbury without notice to milk
vendors, with the view of determining the condition of the milk as
regards the presence of dirt, dust, injurious bacteria, or other
injurious or offensive matter from the co.w or introduced by dirty
manipulation.
The Council is satisfied that considerable contamination of milk
takes place in Finsbury, and it has therefore resolved strictly to
enforce the requirements of the Dairies Orders and Regulations
made under it, in order to ensure a more satisfactory supply in
future.
I am,
Sir,
Your obedient servant,
(Signed) GEORGE NEWMAN, M.D.,
Medical Officer of Health.
Public Health Department,
Finsbury Town Hall,
Rosebery Avenue, E.C.
December 18 th 1903.
(b) Amendments of the Law.—The Council also resolved
on making representations to the proper authorities for securing (i)
new regulations under the Dairy Orders ; (ii) an acceleration of the
procedure under Sec. 71 of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891,
relating to the prohibition of the sale of infected milk, the provisions
of the section having been found ineffective in preventing the spread
of contagion from such a source ; (iii) powers to a Sanitary Authority