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SECTION E —INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OF FOOD
Milk and Dairies Regulations, 1949
At the end of the year there were 112 persons registered for the
distribution of milk from premises within the borough and 21
registrations for the distribution of milk within the borough from
premises in the area of another authority.
There are no premises in the borough used as dairies.
The Milk and Dairies (General) Regulations, 1959
These Regulations re-enact with amendments the Milk and Dairies
Regulations, 1949 to 1954. The principal changes are :—
(a) the registration of distributors is now required to be effected
only with the local authority in whose area the premises from
which the milk is distributed are situated ;
(b) suitable and properly trapped internal drains are permitted in a
milking house which is not used for the housing of cattle where
no other means of drainage is reasonably practicable ;
(c) provision is made for the local authority to pay compensation to a
person who sustains damage or loss through being debarred from
certain employment connected with cows or with milk because
he is suffering, or has been in contact with a 'person suffering,
from a disease liable to cause infection of milk ;
(d) where milk is infected, or suspected of being infected, with
disease :—
(i) the appropriate notice may be served by a medical officer of
health on the occupier of registered premises outside (as well
as inside) his district and, in the case of tuberculosis, it shall
operate until it is withdrawn ;
(ii) the conditions as to compensation have been considerably
modified ;
(e) an electric or gas boiler may be used in a milking house or milk
room and bottles which have contained certain foods other than
milk may by cleansed in a milk room ;
(f) there are new provisions as to personal cleanliness, precautions
against contamination or infection of milk and the provision of
first aid equipment ;
(g) the Minister may permit milk to be cooled in a closed container
in a milking house not used for the housing of cattle where the
cows are milked by mechanical means direct to such container ;
(h) there are new provisions relating to the misuse of milk churns,
the cleansing of vessels and appliances, the storage of cartons
and non-returnable containers and the use of bottle-washing
machines for cleansing glass bottles ;