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APPENDIX.
Summary of certain Sections in the London County Council
General Powers Bill, 1907, relating to Public Health and
Sanitation, with Remarks of the Medical Officer of Health
thereon
Part IV.—Milk.
22. Gives power to the Medical Officer of the County or other
person authorised by him to enter any dairy within the County
accompanied hy a veterinary surgeon and inspect the cows, and if
any cow is suspected to be suffering from tuberculous disease of the
udder, to require the cow to be milked in his presence, and may
take samples of the milk for examination from each teat.
The Medical Officer is also required, if he is of opinion that
tuberculosis is caused to persons in the County by consumption of
milk from any dairy or cow in the County to report thereon to the
Council, such report to be accompanied by a report from a veterinary
surgeon. The Council may, on such report, call upon the dairyman
to show cause why an Order should not be made prohibiting the
supply of his milk to the County. Similar powers may be exercised in
all respects by the Medical Officer and the London County Council
where the Medical Officer has reason to believe that milk from
dairies outside the County is causing or is likely to cause
tuberculosis in persons residing in the County. Provided that in
the latter case an Order must first be obtained from a Justice
having jurisdiction in the place where the dairy is situated before
entry and examination of the cows.
There is no objection to these powers being conferred on
the Medical Officer of the County provided that the Medical
Officer of Health of each Metropolitan City or Borough
shall, within his own district, have the same powers as the
Medical Officer of the County.