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vision is necessary to keep them in a cleanly condition and in
accordance with the orders.
It is very desirable that shops should be prohibited from selling
milk where articles such as fish, paraffin oil, coal, &c., are sold, which,
though they may not be considered strictly a contamination are yet
very undesirable articles in connection with the sale of milk, and
registration should be limited to such premises as dairies only, or
confectionery and butter and provision businesses.
This difficulty would be obviated by the adoption of the proposals
of the London County Council (General Powers) Bill, to be submitted
to Parliament next year, giving power to the local authorities to refuse
to register, or to remove from the register, any person carrying on in
their district the trade of cowkeeper, dairyman or purveyor of milk.
Under the present system the Council must register an applicant, but
he takes the risk as to non-compliance wth the Dairies, Cowsheds and
Milkshops Orders.
The suggested new provisions state :—
"Notwithstanding anything contained in the Dairies, Cowsheds
and Milkshops Order of 1885, or 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 or purveyors of milk, or may
refuse to enter upon such register the name of any person carrying
on or proposing to carry on the trade of a dairyman or
purveyor of milk upon premises which are in the opinion of such
sanitary authority, for any reason unsuitable for the sale of milk
therein. Provided that for the purposes of this section premises
shall not be deemed to be unsuitable for the sale of milk therein
on any ground inconsistent with the provisions or requirements
of any Order or Regulation made under any enactment for the
time being in force and applicable to such premises.
" Subject to the provisions of this Act, any person who
thinks himself aggrieved by the exercise by the sanitary authority
of the powers of this Section may appeal to the Council, whose
decision shall be final."
While much assistance must accrue from the adoption of new
provisions of this nature, they might be extended by the substitution
of a licence in lieu of registration, in the case of dairymen or purveyors
of milk, subjected to an annual renewal as in the case of
cowkeepers at the present time, and which would still retain to the
London County Council or the sanitary authority, the opportunity of
refusal to enter on, or to remove from the register.
Special attention was given to the practice of using cans on milk
trolleys in the street and for household delivery in a corroded and