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THE STRAND DISTRICT, LONDON. 43
It appears desirable that the Regulations as to dairies, cowsheds
and milkshops should be extended so as to include such
places. I quote three of these Regulations which would be of
much value if extended to other branches of industry dealing
with food :—
" 30. Every purveyor of milk, or person selling milk by
" retail, shall not keep milk for sale in any place where it would
" be liable to become infected or contaminated by gases or effluvia
" arising from any sewers, drains, gullies, cesspools, or closets,
" or by any offensive effluvia from putrid or offensive substances,
" or by impure air, or by any offensive or deleterious gases or
" substances.
" 31. Every purveyor of milk, or person selling milk by
" retail, shall only keep milk for sale in clean receptacles; and all
" utensils used in connection with the keeping or sale of such
" milk shall be at all times kept clean.
" 32. Every purveyor of milk, or person selling milk by
" retail, shall at all times employ such means, and adopt such
" precautions, as may be necessary for preserving the purity of
" milk, and for protecting it against infection or contamination."
The provisions of the Public Health and Factory and Workshops
Acts, relating to the sanitary condition of bakehouses,
might also be adapted with the above Regulations to a larger use.
The occupier of a bakehouse may be fined if it is in such a
state as to be, on sanitary grounds, unfit for use or occupation as
a bakehouse, and it is much more important that occupiers of
places where other kinds of food are prepared should be under
similar liability. It would be well, also to prohibit the use of any
place for the preparation for sale, storage or sale of food until it
had been pronounced fit for such purpose.
It appears desirable that the Regulations (especially Nos. 30
and 32 quoted above) in regard to places where milk is stored
or sold should be more thoroughly put in force, and it is therefore
satisfactory to note that the County Council have agreed to
transfer to the Local Authorities the duty of inspecting these and
other businesses, and of enforcing the by-laws and regulations
made by the Council.