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employees in the milk trade in the Borough and a circular letter was addressed to
the registered milksellers drawing attention to the facilities thus afforded and
expressing the hope that the milk traders would in future require the production of
such certificate before giving employment to any new applicants for work in their
business.
Although a great step forward has been made it may be pointed out that these
Regulations apply only to employment in connection with a dairy and although
this term includes farm, cowshed, milk store, milk shop or other place from which
milk is supplied on or for sale, it does not include a shop or other place in which
milk is sold for consumption on the premises only. No action, therefore, could
be taken by a local authority to prevent the continued employment in, for example,
a restaurant, of an employee suffering from tuberculosis, although the nature of
the work carried on by such tuberculous person might entail the treatment of
milk or the handling of vessels used for containing milk for human consumption.
Information was received during the year respecting tuberculosis in the case of a
cook employed in the preparation of meals for the staff at a large hotel. No action
could be taken under the Regulations to require this employment to be
discontinued. When the public is prepared to accept any extension of the
Regulations they will probably be applied to all trades concerned with the
preparation of food.
Tuberculosis Care Committee.
The Holborn Tuberculosis Care Committee constituted by the scheme
prepared in the year 1922 took over the work of the Interim Care Committee on
the 1st April, 1923. The Committee includes the following representation:—
Holborn Borough Council Councillor Miss M. R. Lovelock.
Medical Officer of Health (Dr. C. W. Hutt)
Tuberculosis Dispensary Councillor Sir William Smith, D.L., J.P.
Tuberculosis Officer (Dr. J. A. Struthers).
London County Council Dr. F. C. Lewis.
Miss H. Bell.
Guardians of the Holborn Union Conncillor Alfred Humphreys.
Charity Organisation Society Miss E. F. Bolton.
Local Association of Children's School Mrs. A. E. Dove.
Care Committees.
Invalid Children's Aid Association Miss E. Fildes.
Metropolitan District Nursing Association Miss M. Wilmshurst.
Almoners of hospitals Miss J. G. Salmon.
Miss A. M. Smith.
Insurance Committee for the County of Miss S. Double.
London.
Northern London War Pensions Committee Councillor Richard Davies (from Feb.
1926).
British Red Cross Emergency Help Fund Mrs. Paige.
Other social workers (co-opted) Mrs. E. C. Bedford.
Miss H. M. Matbieson.
Rev. Wilfred H. Davies, M.A.