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MILK AND DAIRIES (AMENDMENT) ACT, 1922, AND MILK AND DAIRIES
ORDER, 1926
Article 6 of the Milk and Dairies Order, 1926, requires local authorities to keep registers of
dairymen and dairy premises, while Section 2 (1) of the Milk and Dairies (Amendment) Act, 1922,
empowers the Council to refuse to enter any person's name on the register of retailers of milk if they
are satisfied that the public health is, or is likely to be, endangered by any act or default of the person
in relation to the quality, storage or distribution of the milk.
It was not necessary to exercise the provisions of the latter section during 1938.
Article 31 (2) of the Milk and Dairies Order, 1926, provides:—
" Where a person delivers milk in bottles he shall cause every such bottle to be filled and
closed on registered premises ; and no person shall remove or tamper with the disc . . . before
it is delivered to the consumer."
During the year, one dairyman was warned for contravening this Article by removing the disc
from a bottle of milk before delivery to the consumer.
At the end of 1938, there were on the Register 105 dairymen occupying 105 registered dairy
premises in the Borough. In addition, there were 28 dairymen retailing milk in Fulham from premises
situated and registered in adjoining districts.
The following are details of the changes which took place during 1938:—
Number of Dairymen on the Register:—
Number on Register at 31st December, 1937 106
Number who transferred their business or discontinued selling milk
during 1938 7
99
Number of registrations granted during 1938 6
Number on register at 31st December, 1938 105
During 1938, registration as purveyors of milk in " properly closed and unopened receptacles "
was granted to 32 persons and there are now 140 names on the Register.
INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OF DAIRIES AND MILKSHOPS
During 1938, the Sampling Officer made 512 visits to dairies and milkshops and served 21
written notices and in addition gave many verbal intimations of defects noted during his inspections.
Milk and Dairies (Consolidation) Act, 1915—Section 4. This section empowers local authorities
to stop the supply of milk from any dairy if such milk causes, or is likely to cause, tuberculosis. It
was not necessary to take action under this section during 1938.
Similarly, there was no evidence that milk sold in the Borough was infected by persons suffering
from infectious diseases, so that no action was taken under Section 18 of the Milk and Dairies Order,
1926.
MILK (SPECIAL DESIGNATIONS) ORDER, 1936
The licences granted by the Borough Council during 1938 were as follows:—
Number of Licences to sell Tuberculin Tested Milk 33
Number of Supplementary Licences to sell Tuberculin Tested
Milk 3
Number of Licences to sell Pasteurised Milk 45
Number of Supplementary Licences to sell Pasteurised Milk 9
Number of samples taken in accordance with the instructions
of the Ministry of Health —