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LEGISLATION (PUBLIC HEALTH), 1908.
During the year 1908 several Acts of Parliament
bearing upon the important question of the Public
Health of the County of London received the Royal
Assent, i.e.:—
The London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1908,
Part II., Section 5, gives power to Sanitary Authorities to
remove from or refuse to enter on Register names of Cowkeepers,
Dairymen or Purveyors of Milk in certain circumstances, subject
to a provision that any person who thinks himself aggrieved by
any decisions of a Sanitary Authority under the provisions of
this Section, may, at any time, within twenty-one days from
the date of such decision, appeal against the same to a Court of
Summary Jurisdiction. The London County Council issued
the following circular in reference to the matter of milk supply
to London:—
COUNTY OF LONDON.
Milk Supply (Tuberculosis).
The London County Council, pursuant to Section 31 of the
London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1907, hereby
gives notice of the provisions of Part IV. of the said Act
relating to the supply of milk in the County of London.
The effect of these provisions is as follows:—
Power to take samples of milk and inspect cows.
The Council's Medical Officer of Health or other duly
authorised person may take, within and outside the County,
samples of milk produced or sold or intended for sale within
the County; and if the Council so resolve, the officers of a
sanitary authority may as regards their district also take
samples of milk for examination by the Council subject to
such conditions as the Council may prescribe.
The Medical Officer or other duly authorised person
may in company with a veterinary surgeon enter any dairy
within or outside the County from which milk is being
sold or suffered to be sold or used within the County and
inspect the cows kept therein, and if the Medical Officer or
such person has reason to suspect that any cow is suffering
from tuberculosis of the udder he may take samples of the
milk of such cow.