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 for the year 1899
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with the storage and distribution of the milk, and otherwise, to
prevent the exposure of the milk to any infection or contamination.
(2.) He shall not deposit or keep any milk intended for sale—
(a.) In any room or place where it would be liable to become
infected or contaminated by impure air, or by any
offensive, noxious, or deleterious gas or substance, or
by any noxious or injurious emanation, exhalation, or
effluvium; or
(b.) in any room used as a kitchen or as a living room; or
(c.) in any room or building, or part of a building communicating
directly by door, window, or otherwise with
any room used as a sleeping room, or in which there
may be any person suffering from any infectious or
contagious disease, or which may have been used by
any person suffering from any such disease and may not
have been properly disinfected; or
(d.) in any room or building or part of a building in which
there may be any direct inlet to any drain.
(3.) He shall not keep milk for sale, or cause or suffer any such
milk to be placed in any vessel, receptacle or utensil which is not
thoroughly clean.
(4.) He shall cause every vessel, receptacle or utensil used by him
for containing milk for sale to be thoroughly cleansed with steam or
clean boiling water after it shall have been used, and to be maintained
in a constant state of cleanliness.
(5.) He shall not cause or suffer any cow belonging to him or
under his care or control to be milked for the purpose of obtaining
milk for sale—-
(a.) Unless, at the time of milking, the udder and teats of such
cow are thoroughly clean ; and