Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report on the sanitary condition of the Metropolitan Borough of Hackney for the year 1922
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METROPOLITAN BOROUCH OF HACKNEY.
Public Health Department,
Town Hall, Hackney, E.8.
The Dairies, Cowsheds and Milkshops Orders, 1885 and 1886.
London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1908, s.5.
The Public Health Committee have decided that the following
conditions must be complied with by applicants for registration
under the above Orders:-
(1) The lighting and ventilation must be maintained in a
satisfactory condition.
(2) No room which is used as a sleeping room must communicate
directly with the room or shop in which the
milk is sold or stored.
(3) The premises must be so constructed that every part of
the interior is capable of being maintained in a satisfactory
state of cleanliness.
(4) There must be no inlet to any drain in the room or place
in which milk is sold or stored.
(5) Milk must be stored in suitable receptacles with close
fitting covers of suitable material.
(6) Efficient means of cleansing the milk vessels, either bv
steam or hot water must be available.
(7) A plentiful supply of water must be provided, and where
a storage cistern is necessary such cistern must be properly
covered and ventilated and so placed as to be readily
accessible.
(8) No premises will be registered where it is possible that
milk may be stored in close proximity to any article
capable of contaminating such milk, as for instance,
paraffin, coal, vegetables, vinegar and pickles (except
when stored in unopened bottles), fish, &c., and no such
articles must be sold from the premises.
(9) No premises will be registered if there is a manure or
other offensive accumulation in close proximity.
(10) Efficient means for the storage and removal of refuse
must be provided.
I agree to comply with the above conditions.
Signed
Address
W itness
Date