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Part V.—Sanitary Provisions.
33. Gives power to County Medical Officer of Health or person
authorised by him in writing to take for examination samples of
milk at railway stations and elsewhere in the County samples of
milk intended for sale.
If such milk be found for any reason unsound, or unwholesome
or unfit for the food of man, power is given to the London County
Council to prosecute for such selling or exposure. Power is also
given to the London County Council to institute enquiries and make
investigations for the purposes of this section.
The same powers should be given to the Metropolitan
Boroughs and their Medical Officer of Health, for they have
more need of this power than the County Council.
34. Gives power to the Medical Officer, if he has reasonable
cause to believe that infectious disease is caused in the County by
milk, to require every person supplying milk to a sufferer or to any
person in the same house, to supply him with a list of the farms,
dairies or places from which he has derived his milk supplies during
the last six weeks, and also a list of the persons supplied within
such six weeks. The Council shall pay sixpence for each list, and
sixpence for every twenty-five names.
The same power should be given to the Borough
Medical Officer of Health.
35. Requires every dairyman, whether within or without the
County, supplying milk to the County, to notify to the London
Couuty Council or their Medical Officer all cases of infectious
disease amongst persons engaged in connection with his dairy, as
soon as he is aware of the existence of such disease, under a
penalty not exceeding 40s.
The effect of this section will be to cause all such
infectious disease occurring in the respective Boroughs to
be notified to the London County Council. Such cases are
already dealt with by the local Medical Officer of Health, and