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(a) Clauses 21-31 (relating to milk) to be amended so as to relate only to
milk suspected to be tuberculous, and Borough Council Officers to have the
powers sought in their respective districts.
(b) That Clause 32 (infectious disease attributable to milk) be objected to
on the ground that the proposed remedy should be provided by amending
Clause 71 of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891. and that the County
Council should only act upon information of a Medical Officer of Health of a
Sanitary Authority.
(c) That Clause 33 (taking samples of milk at railway stations) be
opposed on the ground that this duty should remain as at present in the
hands of the Sanitary Authority.
(d) Clauses 34 and 35 (lists of customers to be supplied by dairymen in
certain cases, and infectious diseases among dairy servants) that these powers,
if granted, should be conferred on borough Councils wno already have powers
within the county.
(e) That clause 36 (infected persons not to milk animals) be objected to,
the matter being provided for in London by Section 69 of the Public Heath
Act.
(f) That Clause 37 (lists of customers of laundries in certain cases) be
amended so as to include list of persons employed.
(g) That Clauses 39 and 40 (accommodation for keeping and storage of
food in tenement houses and prohibition of sorting house refuse by hand) be
opposed as unnecessary.
(h) That Clauses 49-51 (power to Borough Councils to establish milk
depots) be objected to.
(i) That Clause 84 (power to County Council to cater at lodging-houses)
be opposed as being unnecessary.
With the exception of Clauses 21—31 relating to milk supply,
the clauses to which this Counpil objected, and the clauses relating
to water supply, sale of food, t>ye-laws as to fried fish shops, &c.,
catering by County Council, were afterwards withdrawn, and the part
of the Act relating to the cleansing of verminous persons amended so
as to enable the County Council and Sanitary Authorities to enter into
arrangements with respect to such cleansing.
57. The Bill, as amended, received the Royal Assent on the
28th August, 1907.
58. This was a Bill to confer powers on the London County
Council with respect to the supply of electrical energv
in bulk in the Administrative County of London and
London County
Council (Electric
Supply).