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Public Health (London) Act, 1891, in respect of the
Metropolis, whereby the Board may make such general
or special Orders as they may think fit for the following
purposes, or any of them, that is to say,—
(a) Registration of all dairymen;
(b) Inspection of cattle in dairies;
(c) Sanitary conditions of dairies;
(d) Securing of the cleanliness of milk vessels;
(e) Prescribing of precautions to be taken for the
protection of milk against infection, or contamination;
and
(/) Authorising the L.C.C. to make Bye-laws for
any (or all) of the above purposes.
3. To call the attention of the Railway Companies and the
large Metropolitan Milk Societies or Organisations to
the present need for more sanitary means of transit
and storage of milk.
4. To suggest to the Local Government Board the
ability of (a) all Milkshops and Milk Stores being
required (under penalty) to be licensed annually, as is
the case (at present) with all cow sheds ; and (b) no
person or persons being allowed to sell milk unless the
premises, at which such milk is sold or stored, have
been previously certified as "suitable" by the Sanitary
Authority for the District.
OPEN SPACES.
During 1904, the following action has been decided upon in
regard to certain open spaces :—
(a) Ufford Street—Recreation ground, which has been given
over to the Borough by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners,
to be paved, drained and fenced in at an
estimated cost of £820 5s. 0d.