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The following suggestions contained in a memorandum
drawn up by the Society of Medical Officers of Health are
adhered to as far as circumstances admit, and the circumstances
must be very special to cause a departure from the main lines of
these suggestions:—
No premises are registered for the sale or storage of milk
unless the following structural conditions are complied with:—
The lighting and ventilation are sufficient ;
No room which is used as a sleeping room must communicate
directly with the room or shop in which the milk is
sold or stored.
The premises must be so constructed that every part of the
interior is capable of being maintained in a satisfactory state of
cleanliness.
There must be no inlet to any drain in the room in which
the milk is sold or stored.
Efficient means of cleansing the milk vessels, either by steam
or hot water, must be available.
A plentiful supply of water must be provided, and where a
storage cistern is necessary such cistern must be properly covered
and ventilated, and so placed as to be readily accessible.
No premises are registered where it is possible that milk
may be stored in close proximity to any article capable of
contaminating such milk, as for instance, paraffin, fish, coal,
vegetables, etc.
No premises are registered if there is a manure pit or other
offensive accumulation in close proximity.
Efficient means for the storage and removal of house or
other refuse must be provided.
Several special reports have been presented to your Public
Health Committee on the lesults of bacteriological examinations
of milk taken from the dairies of the principal companies
trading in the Borough. It is unnecessary to recapitulate these.
Suffice it to say that enough has already been done to demonstrate
to these companies that, excellent as are the precautions
carried out by most of them to secure the purity of their milk,
these are still imperfect in some details, and that your Public
Health Committee—if not the slumbering public—demand an
even better degree of hygienic supervision.
SLAUGHTER HOUSES.
Notices of intention to apply to the London County Council
for the renewal of slaughter-house licenses were, received by