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that the London County Council might with advantage apply to
Parliament for such additional powers as will enable them to
inspect dairies, cowsheds and cattle from which milk is supplied
to the County of London, or as an alternative for powers to prevent
the introduction of milk from such districts as do not enforce the
aforesaid Order and regulations.
I reported to the Committee the case would be met if the Dairies,
Cowsheds and Milkshops Order and the regulations made thereunder
be enforced strictly by local authorities outside the
Metropolis, and instead of it being optional for local authorities
to make regulations, as per article 13 of the Dairies, Cowsheds and
Milkshops Order, it should be compulsory, and the Local Government
Board and the various County Councils should see that the
regulations are enforced.
Article 13 mentioned above is as follows:—
A Local Authority MAY from time to time make Regulations
for the following purposes, or any of them:
(a) For the inspection of cattle in dairies.
(b) for prescribing and regulating the lighting, ventilation,
cleansing, drainage and water supply of dairies and cowsheds
in the occupation of persons following the trade of
cowkeepers or dairymen.
(c) For securing the cleanliness of milk-stores, milk-shops and
of milk-vessels used for containing milk for sale by such
persons.
(d) For prescribing precautions to be taken by purveyors of
milk and persons selling milk by retail against infection or
contamination.
In a circular letter of the Local Government Board to Councils
of Boroughs and Urban Districts, dated 11th March, 1889, it is
stated:—
"If the Council have not already made regulations under the
Order of 1885, the Board think that they should do so, and