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Outworkers.
In accordance with Section 107 of the Factories and Workshops
Act, lists of outworkers were received from 77 persons
carrying on business in Camberwell, in addition to those received
from other Boroughs (i.e., outworkers living in Camberwell but
employed by persons in other Boroughs).
The women sanitary inspectors made 2,790 visits to outworkers'
homes.
INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OF FOOD.
Milk and Dairies Order, 1926.
The above Order, made by the Minister of Health in pursuance
of his powers under the Milk and Dairies (Consolidation)
Act, 1915, Section 1, came into operation on October 1st, 1926.
The Order revokes the Dairies, Cowsheds and Milkshops
Orders of 1885, 1886 and 1899, and all Regulations made thereunder
under by Local Authorities.
The main provisions of those Orders and Regulations are
replaced in the present Order by provisions similar in general
purposes but modified in accordance with the development of
modern hygienic knowledge so as to lay greater stress on cleanliness
in all operations connected with the production and handling
of milk.
Important new provisions of the Order (Part IV) relate to
the health and inspection of cattle, and these are enforced and
executed by Councils of Counties and County Boroughs, the
remainder of the Order Being enforced by the Sanitary Authorities.
Provisions are made for the registration by Sanitary
Authorities of all persons carrying on, in their district, the trade
of cowkeeper or dairyman, and of all farms and other premises
which are used as dairies (Part III).
Under Part V general provisions are made for securing the
cleanliness of dairies, etc., and protecting milk against infection
and contamination; and Part VIII deals with the conveyance and
distribution of milk and the cleansing of churns, etc.
Under this part of the Order it is provided that all receptacles
containing skimmed or separated milk shall have the words
" skimmed milk " or " separated milk " marked on such
receptacles in large and legible type.
The Register which the Council is required to keep in accordance
with the above Order contained, at the end of December,