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retailer to do so, but the well-known liability of milk to become
contaminated, and to act as a carrier of disease, renders it imperative,
in the interests of the consumer, that all possible precautions
shall be taken.
If protection from contamination in the shop cannot be carried
out, the only alternative is to prohibit the sale of milk in the
premises, on the ground that they are unsuitable.
With the object of making known the new powers conferred upon
the Council, each applicant for a registration form was given also
a sheet upon which the Section of the London County Council
(General Powers) Act, 1908, relating to registration, was set out
in full. In addition, since so many of the milk-sellers deal in other
foods as well, another Section, containing sanitary regulations for
premises for the sale, storage, etc., of food for human consumption
was printed on the same sheet. A copy of the sheet is given below.
All premises in the Borough in which food is sold were also
visited by the District Inspectors, with the double object of explaining
the terms of the Sections to the occupants and of discovering
contraventions of the law.
FINSBURY BOROUGH COUNCIL.
Registration of Milkshops, &c.
London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1908.
The attention of persons registered or applying for registration
as Cowkeepers, Dairymen or Purveyors of Milk, and of those
dealing in articles which are to be sold as food for human
consumption, is directed to the following Sections in the above Act.
Section 5 (1). Notwithstanding anything contained in the Dairies, Cowsheds
and Milkshops, Order of 1885, or in any subsequent Order, any sanitary
authority may remove from the register, kept by them of persons, from
time to time, carrying on in their district the trade of cowkeepers, dairymen