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Hammersmith 1926

Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health of the Borough of Hammersmith for the year 1926

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such lamps or other means of artificial lighting as will enable any
such process to be conducted in a good and proper light.
13.—(1) All registered premises shall be provided with a supply of
water suitable and sufficient for the requirements of this Order.
(2) Every receptacle used for the storage or conveyance of water
shall be emptied and cleansed from time to time as often as may be
necessary to prevent the pollution of the water and to maintain it in a
suitable condition for the purpose for which it is required.
(3) The water supply used for the watering of cows shall, as far as
reasonably possible, be protected against contamination caused by the
drainage of foul water.
14. The following provisions shall apply for the purpose of preventing
contamination or infection of milk:—
(1) Milk shall not be deposited or kept in any place where it is
liable to become contaminated or infected. In particular it
shall not be deposited or kept—
(i) in any room used as a kitchen, scullery, living-room
or sleeping-room; or
(ii) in any room or part of a building which communicates
directly by door, window or otherwise with,—
(а) any water-closet, earth-closet, privy, cesspool or
receptacle for ashes or other refuse; or
(b) any room which is used as a sleeping-room or
any room which is occupied by a person suffering
from an infectious disease, or which, having
been so occupied, has not been subsequently
properly disinfected; or
(iii) in any room or part of a building in which there
is any direct inlet to a drain which is not efficently
trapped;
Provided that the foregoing provisions shall not be deemed
to prohibit the deposit or keeping of milk intended for use in
the manufacture of butter, cream or cheese in a room used as
a kitchen.
(2) Vessels containing milk shall be properly covered or the milk
shall be otherwise effectively protected from dust, dirt, flies
or other sources of contamination;
(3) No foul or noxious matter or soiled bed or body clothing shall
be conveyed through any part of a building used for the keeping
or storage of milk.
15. Every person engaged in the milking of cows or the distribution
or measuring of milk or otherwise having access to the milk or to the
churns or other milk receptacles shall keep his clothing and person in
a cleanly condition.
16. A person shall not carry out any process of cooling, bottling,
sterilising or pasteurising milk or any other process connected with
milk, or keep any appliances connected with any such process, in a
cowshed or in any place where the milk or appliances would be liable
to contamination arismg from any cowshed, stable or manure-heap, or
otherwise.
17.—(1) Every person having access to the milk or to the churns or
other milk receptacles in or about any registered premises, as soon
as he becomes aware that any member of his household is suffering
from any infectious disease, shall immediately notify the occupier of
such premises of the fact and the occupier shall immediately notify the