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DAIRIES, COWSHEDS AND MILK SHOPS ORDERS.
The additional powers conferred upon Sanitary Authorities in the Metropolis
by the London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1908, include the
following:—
Section 5 enacts that any Sanitary Authority may remove from or refuse
to enter on the Register the names of dairymen or purveyors of milk whose
premises are. in the opinion of such Sanitary Authority, for any reason
unsuitable for the sale of milk thereon. Any person feeling aggrieved by any
decision of a Sanitary Authority under the provisions of this section has the
right of appeal within twenty-one days from the date of such decision to a
Court of Summary Jurisdiction.
Hitherto purveyors of milk could be placed on the Register without any
restrictions, and it is greatly to the advantage of the public health that
Sanitary Authorities should be armed with the powers provided by this
section as the sale of milk in small chandlers' shops, entirely unfitted for the
proper storage of such a susceptible article as milk, is most objectionable from
a public health point of view.
The action taken in the course of the year under the section referred to
above, with regard to those premises in the City unfitted for the sale or
storage of milk, is referred to on page 67.
At the end of the year there were 612 purveyors of milk registered in the
City of London, as compared with 606 in 1907, an increase of 6.
During the year the sale of milk was discontinued at 42 premises, and the
owners' names removed from the register, 48 new premises were added,
and 41 changes of ownership necessitating re-registration occurred.
Each place on the register is regularly and systematically inspected, and
their general condition is now much better than obtained in 1903, when the
revised regulations for milkshops in the City came into force.
The omission to re-close the lids of milk pans after serving a customer is
still far too prevalent, 42 cases being reported in the course of the year;
cautionary letters were sent to the offenders in each instance.
Three cases of Infectious Disease (all Scarlet Fever) occurred at registered
premises during the year, the necessary cleansing, disinfection, and usual
precautionary measures being carried out in each instance.
A list of registered purveyors of milk in the City is given in Appendix D,
p. 180.