View report page

166
Offensive Effiuvia.
21.—Every Purveyor of milk, or person selling milk by retail, shall not
keep milk for sale in any place where it would be liable to become infected or
contaminated by gases or effluvia arising from any sewers, drains, gullies,
cesspools, or closets, or by any offensive effluvia from putrid or offensive
substances, or by impure air, or by any offensive or deleterious gases or
substances.
Receptacles.
22.—Every Purveyor of milk, or person selling milk by retail, shall only
keep milk for sale in clean receptacles ; and all utensils used in connection
with the keeping or sale of such milk shall be at all times kept clean, and shall be
kept efficiently covered so as to prevent contamination ; such covering should be
constructed of fine meshed brass, copper, or plated metal gauze fitted into suitable
frame, and should at all times be kept in a clean condition.
General.
23.—Every Purveyor of milk, or person selling milk by retail, shall at
all times employ such means, and adopt such precautions, as may be necessary for
preserving the purity of milk, and for protecting it against infection or
contamination.
Penalties.
24.—Every person who shall offend against any of the foregoing Regulations
shall be liable for every such offence to a penalty of Five Pounds, and in the case
of a continuing offence, to a further penalty of Forty Shillings for each day after
written notice of the offence from the Corporation of London.
Commencement of Regulaations.
25.—These Regulations shall come into force on and after the First day of
September, One thousand nine hundred and three.
Revocation of Regulations.
26.—From and after the date on which these Regulations shall come into
force, all Regulations heretofore made under or having effect in pursuance of the
Dairies, Cowsheds and Milk-shops Order of 1885 shall, so far as the same are now
in force in the City of London, be revoked.
Public Health Department,
Guildhall, London, E.C.
1903.
At a Meeting of the Corporation of London, at the Guildhall of the City of
London, on Thursday, the 23rd day of July, 1903,
It was Resolved—
That the said Regulations be approved and adopted.
Examined,
HOMEWOOD CRAWFORD,
City Solicitor.
BELL.