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private arrangement at present, but it should be made
compulsory.
Cow and Slaughter-Houses and Piggeries.— These
have been inspected in each of the sub-districts by the
several medical officers and inspectors. As we had occasion
to remark last year, all concur in commending the
stringent regulations in force regarding slaughter-houses,
and in lamenting the absence of similar regulations
for the control of cow-houses. In last Report we made
a strong representation on this subject, urging the need
for such means as would enable us to meet those
numerous cases of bad sanitary arrangements which we
are constantly finding in the ordinary type of cowhouse.
During the year under review, the Vestry of
Kensington took energetic and systematic action in this
matter, and so perseveringly, that the Privy Council at
last yielded, and put into force the 34th Section of the
Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act, 1878. The section
in question reads as follows:—
"Dairies, Cow-Sheds, and Milk Shops.
"The Privy Council may, from time to time, make such general
or special orders as they think fit, subject and according to
the provisions of this Act, for the following purposes, or
any of them:— For the registration with the local authority
of all persons carrying on the trade of cow-keepers, dairymen,
or purveyors of milk. For the inspection of cattle in
dairies, and for prescribing and regulating the lighting,
ventilation, cleansing, drainage, and water supply of dairies
and cow sheds in the occupation of persons following the
trade of cow-keepers or dairymen. For securing the
cleanliness of milk-stores, milk-shops, and milk vessels used
for containing milk for sale by such persons. For prescribing
precautions to be taken for protecting milk against
infection or contamination. For authorising a local authority
to make regulations for the purposes aforesaid, or any of
them, subject to such conditions, if any, as the Privy
Council prescribe."