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or requirements of the Dairies, Cowsheds and Milkshops Orders.
Any person feeling aggrieved by any decision of the Sanitary
Authority under the provisions of this section may appeal within
21 days from the date of such decision to a Court of Summary
Jurisdiction.
Hitherto purveyors of milk could be placed on the register
without any restrictions, and the necessity for the local authority
having power to refuse registration has been frequently urged
by the Borough Council, as it is certainly to the advantage of the
public health that there should be power to prohibit the storage
of a food so susceptible to contamination as milk on premises
quite unfitted for the purpose.
With the view of enforcing these provisions, an inspection of
the premises where milk is sold or stored has been made by the
Food Inspector and Medical Officer of Health, and the Public
Health Committee have been advised to remove 48 of these
premises from the register.
Sanitary Regulations for Premises used for the Sale or Storage
of Food.
Section viii. of the London County Council (General Powers)
Act, 1908, gives the Borough Council power to enforce the following
sanitary regulations for premises used for the sale or
storage of food.
(a) No urinal, water-closet, earth-closet, privy, ashpit, or
other like sanitary convenience shall be within such room,
shop or other part of a building, or shall communicate therewith
except through the open air or through an intervening
ventilated space.
(b) No cistern for supplying water to such room, shop
or other part of a building shall be in direct communication
with and directly discharge into any such sanitary convenience.
(c) No drain or pipe for carrying off fæcal or sewage
matter shall have any inlet or opening within such room,
shop or other part of a building.