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LEGISLATIVE PROPOSALS-SESSION
OF 1907.
Under the above heading, the Public Health Committee of the
London County Council presented on 24th May a report containing
" recommendations " as to the legislation in public health matters which
the Council should promote in the Session of 1907. The report was
considered by the Council on 3rd July, and the recommendations, nine
in number, having been " agreed," they will form the basis for clauses in
the General Powers Bill.
The first of the recommendations relates to milk—
"(i.) Enabling the Council to prohibit the supply, within the
county, of milk from a dairy within or without the county, if the
Medical Officer is of opinion that infectious disease is caused or is
likely to be caused, by the consumption of such milk: enabling the
Council to prohibit the supply within the county, of milk causing or
likely to cause tuberculosis; providing for appeal against the decision
of the Council in the above matters; enabling the Council to require
dairymen to supply lists of their customers and the sources from
which their supply of milk is derived; authorising or requiring the
Council, according to the nature of the case, to allow compensation
in the event of a milk supply being prohibited; enabling the Council
to take samples of milk within the county; providing for penalties
against persons who knowingly sell, or suffer to be sold or used for
human consumption within the county, the milk of any cow which is
suffering from tubercular disease of the udder; imposing upon
dairymen within the county an obligation to notify cases, or
suspected cases, of tubercular disease of the udder; requiring the
isolation of any cow suffering from such disease; enabling the
Council to take samples of milk arriving at railway stations in
London, and Metropolitan Borough Councils to take samples of milk
elsewhere, and enabling the Council and Metropolitan Borough
Councils to deal with milk which on examination appears to be so
filthy as to be unfit for human food."