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London
County Council
(General
Powers)
34.—This Bill included provisions empowering the London County
Council to purchase the site of the Rookery, at Clapham
Common, in order that the same might form
part of the Common, and authorising the Wandsworth
Borough Council to surrender to the County
Council its leasehold estate and interest in a portion of the site
in question.
35.—The Bill also empowered the County Council, if the Medical
Officer should suspect that any case of infectious disease was
attributable to milk supplied from any dairy within or without
the County to a person residing in the County, or to a person outside
the County from any dairy within the County, or that the consumption
of milk from the dairy was likely to cause any infectious
disease, or where there was a cow suffering from tuberculosis or
tuberculous disease, to inspect the dairy and the cows therein.
The dairyman might be required to attend before the County
Council, and an order might be made prohibiting the supply of
milk within the County if the dairy were outside the County, and
from supplying milk from the dairy if it were within the County
until the order had been withdrawn. The order was to be withdrawn
on the County Council, or the Medical Officer of Health
on its behalf, being satisfied that the milk supply had been
changed, or that it was not likely to cause infectious disease or
tuberculosis. The dairyman was to have a right of appeal to the
Board of Agriculture. If the dairyman stopped his milk supply
at the request of the County Council, the Council might make compensation
to him for loss sustained by the stoppage ; and if the
order was made without due cause, or if the Council unreasonably
refused to withdraw the order, the dairyman, if not himself in
default, might recover from the Council full compensation for the
damage sustained. Power was given for the slaughter of cows
reported to be suffering from tuberculosis. If upon examination
after slaughter it was found that the cow was not suffering from
tuberculosis of the udder, the dairyman was to be paid the full
value of the animal. If it should be found to be so suffering then
the dairyman was to receive the value of the carcase. Provision
was also made for lists of customers and other information, to be
supplied to the County Council; for the isolation of diseased cows,
and for notifying cases of tuberculosis. The Bill provided that