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In addition. 141 premises where sterilised milk in bottles is sold
were noted.
Cleansing of premises was necessary in 27 instances. Twelve other
defects were found.
For milk shops connected with infectious diseases, see page 21.
Eight premises were, on account of change of occupiers, re-registered
as milk shops. The sale of milk was discontinued on 27 premises.
Milk and Dairies Order, 1926.
As by this order premises, as well as persons, are to be registered,
the opportunity was taken to revise the whole of the Register. This
had not been completed at the end of the year.
Article 14 (3) of this Order states:-
"No foul or noxious matter, or soiled bed or body clothing
shall be conveyed through any part of a building used for the keeping
or storage of milk."
In a number of instances, milk premises had only one entrance for
everything. The facts were laid before the Council's Solicitors for their
interpretation of this article, and they stated that the Council would
most certainly be justified in either refusing to register a retail purveyor
of milk, or in removing a retail purveyor of milk, already registered, from
the register, in cases where a dairy or shop has only one entrance and
soiled clothes, coal, paraffin and ashpits are habitually carried through
the shop where milk is stored, and in cases where the premises communicate
by door, window or otherwise with a manure receptacle.
The advice of the Legal Department of one of the Municipal Journals
was also sought, and they replied that it seemed clear that when ashes,
etc., could only be removed from premises by being conveyed through a
dairy, that such premises were unsuitable for use as a dairy.