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There should be no inlet to any drain in the room in which the
milk is sold or stored.
Efficient means of cleansing the milk vessels, either by steam
or hot water, should be available.
A plentiful supply of water should be provided, and where a
storage-cistern is necessary such cistern should be properly covered
and ventilated, and so placed as to be readily accessible.
No premises should be registered where it is possible that milk
may be stored in close proximity to any article capable of contaminating
such milk—as for instance, paraffin, fish, coal, vegetables, etc.
No premises should be registered if there is a manure pit or
other offensive accumulation in close proximity.
Efficient means for the storage and removal of house or other
refuse should be provided.
Such action would result in a decrease in the number of chandler's
or general shops registered for the sale of milk; and in the interest
of the public such a decrease is desirable, unless provision can be
made for the storage of the milk in a suitable place, other than the
shop itself, where there would be no risk of contamination.
STABLES.
The question of nuisance From flies in connection with deposits
of house refuse and stable manure has again been investigated by the
L.C.C. on lines similar to those followed in 1907. One of the
centres around which serious nuisance was experienced in 1907 (a
dust depot) was not used after June, 1908, and in correspondence
with this it was found (judging by the results obtained at 15 places of
observation surrounding this centre) that there had been at least
6,000,000 fewer flies in 1908 than in 1907 in houses within a radius