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The Poplar Borough Council was asked to make a representation
on the subject to the Board of Agriculture.
The Public Health Committee recommended the Council to
support the Battersea Borough Council.
The Camberwell Borough Council wrote that their Bacteriologist
had made a series of examinations of milk for Tuberculosis, and the
Council had had under consideration the possibility of turning the
examinations to a useful purpose with the object of reducing the
amount of Tuberculosis, especially Infantile Tuberculosis, existing
in the Borough.
It was suggested that the "Sale of Adulterated Butter" Bill,
then before Parliament, should be amended by the inclusion therein
of Clauses providing—
(1) "In bacteriological matters, the certificate of a duly
qualified and properly appointed bacteriologist shall be
accepted in the same way in bacteriological matters as that
of the Public Analyst is in chemical matters."
(2) "That the presence of the pathogenic bacteria in
milk or butter shall be deemed to be an adulteration to the
prejudice of the purchaser within the meaning of the sale
of Food and Drugs Acts."
The Committee were of opinion that effect should be given to
these proposals, and recommended the Council accordingly.
The Westminster City Council addressed a communication to
the Government urging them to consider the desirability of inserting
in the "Sale of Adulterated Butter" Bill a clause which would
give authority to a Sanitary Inspector to take samples of milk, for
analysis, at any railway station situated in another Borough and
being the place of delivery of milk consigned to his district.
The Committee recommended the Council to support the action
of the Westminster City Council.