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opening to a drain, or either in the manner of storage or of
distribution, do any act or thing likely to expose any milk to
infection or contamination, or omit to do any act or thing
necessary for the due protection of any milk from such infection
or contamination.
By the London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1908,
the Metropolian Borough Councils are empowered to remove
from the register kept by them from time to time persons
carrying on in their district the trade of cowkeepers, dairymen
or purveyors of milk ; or to refuse to enter upon the register
the name of any person carrying on or proposing to carry on
the trade of dairyman, or purveyor of milk upon premises which
are, in the opinion of the Sanitary Authority for any reason
unsuitable for the sale of milk therein.
It is hoped that similar powers will be granted to
Authorities outside Londun. In these small shops the number
and variety of articles stocked is often very large and the
premises are generally overcrowded with stock and difficult to
keep clean.
The amount of milk sold in these premises is often very
small.
The proprietors admit that they sell very little milk; in 24
instances, not more than four quarts are sold daily. The only
hardship that might arise frour their discontinuance of milk
selling would result from a loss cf custom in the other articles
that are stocked in these shops. But the importance of a clean
milk supply, and the liability of milk to become contaminated
render it imperative in the interest of the consumer that all
possible precautions should be taken.
These shops are visited and the owners advised as to the
measures they should take. The proprietors are instructed to
have the receptacles covered, but in 13 instances the milk was
kept in the delivery can. It is tiue that the milk can be kept
as free from dust in the delivery can as in a covered porcelain
dish, but it is more liable to become your in the former.