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Battersea 1904

Report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea for the year 1904

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The Contractor must be prepared to increase or diminish the
supply within reasonable limits, at one day's notice from
the Medical Officer of Health.
A warranty ticket must be attached to every churn and can
guaranteeing its contents to be in accordance with the
specification.
No charge is to be made for the use of churns or cans, which
when empty are to be removed by the Contractoi from the
Council's Depot free of charge.
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 the 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.