Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health of the Borough of Hammersmith for the year 1926
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"Dairy" includes any farm, cowshed, milk store, milk shop or
other place from which milk is supplied on or for sale, or in which
milk is kept or used for purposes of sale or manufacture into butter,
cheese, dried milk or condensed milk for sale, and, in the case of a
purveyor of milk who does not occupy any premises for the sale of
milk, includes the place where he keeps the vessels used by him
for the sale of milk, but does not include a shop from which milk is
not supplied otherwise than in properly closed and unopened
receptacles in which it was delivered to the shop or a shop or other
place in which milk is sold for consumption on the premises only.
"Registered premises" means any building or other premises
required to be registered under the provisions of this Order.
(2) The Interpretation Act, 1889, applies to the interpretation of
this Order or in relation to the revocation of any Order or Regulation
by this Order, as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.
3. Part IV of this Order shall be enforced and executed by the
council of the county or county borough and the remainder of the Order
by the sanitary authority:
Provided that, where the Minister of Health has made an Order under
Sub-section (4) of Section 3 of the Act with respect to a non-county
borough, Part IV of this Order shall be enforced and executed by the
council of such borough as if the borough were a county borough.
4. Every cowkeeper and dairyman shall take all practicable steps
to make the provisions of this Order known to every person in or about
any registered premises in his occupation so far as such provisions
impose any duties or restrictions on such person and so far as they
relate to the processes carried out by such person.
PART II.
Revocation of Orders and Deculations.
5. The Dairies, Cowsheds and Milk-shops Order of 1885, the Dairies,
Cowsheds and Milk-shops Amending Order of 1886, and the Dairies,
Cowsheds and Milk-shops Order of 1890, so far as they relate to England
and Wales, and any regulations made by local authorities in England
and Wales under the said Orders are hereby revoked.
PART III.
Registration and Noticfs.
6.—(1) Every sanitary authority shall keep registers of all persons
carrying on in their district the trade of cowkeeper or dairyman and
of all farms and other premises within their district which are used as
dairies.
(2) Subject to the provisions of Section 2 of the Milk and Dairies
(Amendment) Act, 1922, or of any other statutory enactment, the
sanitary authority, on (he application of any person proposing to carry
on in their district the trade of cowkeeper or dairyman or to use any
farm or other premises in the district as a dairy, shall register such
person or such premises.
(3) Subject as aforesaid, no person shall carry on the trade of cowkeeper
or dairyman or use any premises as a dairy unless he and any
such premises are registered in pursuance of this article.
(4) The sanitary authority shall immediately after the commencement
of this Order inform the county council of the particulars of
registration then in force of cowkcepers and their premises, and they
shall as soon as may be inform the county council of all alterations
made in the registers.