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DAIRIES, MILKSHOPS AND MILK-STORES.
33 new Milkshops and Milk-stores have been registered
during 1907, as compared with 10 during 1906, and all existing
ones have been, from time to time, under inspection, as required.
The total number registered up to date is 523.
The importance of supervising Milk-shops, so as to preserve
the purity of milk sold therein in small quantities, is admitted
by all. At present a Sanitary Authority has no power to refuse
to register an applicant as a milk seller, however unsuitable the
premises may be wherein it is proposed that the milk shall be
stored, nor is any power given to a Sanitary Authority to remove a
milk seller from the Register if the milk-shop subsequently
becomes unsuitable. Additional powers are needed, and the
Council decided in 1907 to ask the London County Council to
insert in their next General Powers Bill, provisions to confer
powers on the Metropolitan Sanitary Authorities to enable them
to prohibit the sale of milk on unsuitable premises.*
Tuberculous Nursery Milk.
The Council during 1907 addressed a letter to the Local
Government Board, the Board of Agriculture and the London
County Council, asking for powers to be given to the Metropolitan Borough Councils, under the Dairies, Cowsheds and
Milkshops Orders of 1899 (Article 2) and 1885 (Article 15), to
remove and place in quarantine any milch cow suspected of
being diseased or tubercular, until the animal is released by a
veterinary inspector under the Contagious Diseases (Animals)
Acts, and to pay reasonable compensation for such quarantining
or detention. This letter was the result of administrative
difficulties in carrying out the Dairies, Cowsheds and Milkshops
Orders in connection with milch cows that are suspected to be
* The L.C.C. has introduced into their 1908 General Powers Bill the
suggested provisions.