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A warranty ticket must be attached to every churn
and can guaranteeing its contents to be in accordance with
the specification.
All pails, strainers, railway churns, refrigerators,
fittings and other vessels and implements brought into
contact with the milk shall be thoroughly inspected before
being used, be properly cleansed, scalded and dried
immediately after being used, and exposed to the air in a
clean place, without lids or covers.
The farms, water supply, drainage system, farm
buildings, dairy and cattle shall be open at any reasonable
time to the inspection of the Council's Medical Officer of
Health, or any person duly authorised by him, and no
milk or cream shall be supplied from any farm which has
been certified by the said Medical Officer of Health to be
in an insanitary condition.
The cows shall be subject, if required, to a periodical
veterinary inspection by a veterinary surgeon duly
appointed by the Council, and the Contractor shall
undertake not to supply milk or cream from any cow which
is diseased, newly calved or under physic.
The cows shall during summer be pastured, and
during winter so fed that no taint is imparted to the milk.
The Contractor undertakes to use no brewers' grains (wet
or dry), turnip-tops or vetches.
The udders of the cows shall be carefully cleansed
before milking, and the utmost possible cleanliness
observed at every point connected with the cows, cowhouse,
utensils and attendants.
The milk shall be carefully strained and cooled to at
least 568 F., immediately after milking, over a Lawrence,
or other cooler of approved design, and shall be delivered
at the Council's Milk Depôt at a temperature not higher
than 56 8 F.
The Contractor shall undertake that the refrigerators
and the in-flow and out-flow pipes, etc., are examined
daily in order to see that everything is in thorough repair,
and that there is no leakage.