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Prevention Act, 1890—provide power for prohibiting the supply
of milk, but only where the Medical Officer of Health is in
possession of evidence that any person in the district is Buffering
from infectious disease attributable to milk supplied within (or
from without) the district, or that the consumption of milk from
such dairy is likely to cause infectious disease to any person
residing in the district. Unfortunately, these powers only refer
to infectious diseases specified in the Acts referred to, and are
Small-Pox, Cholera, Diphtheria, Membranous Croup, Erysipelas,
Scarlet Fever or Scarlatina, and the Fevers known as Typhus,
Typhoid, Enteric, Relapsing, Continued or Puerperal, and in
these specific cases the procedure is surrounded by delays and
difficulties.
In consequence of a previous report, your Council in 1905
addressed a communication to the Local Government Board
upon this subject, a copy of which is appended.
From these observations it is evident that there is urgent
need of further powers for the better protection of our milk
supplies.
Town Hall,
Catfoed, S.E.
11th July, 1905.
Sir,
"I beg to inform you that this Council have had under
"consideration the question of the steps to be taken to stop
"the supply of milk from a farm at which a case of infectious
"disease has occurred. It has been pointed out to the Council
"that, should it at any time be deemed necessary to stop the
"supply of milk from any particular dairy where there was
"evidence that the consumption of milk from such dairy was
"likely to cause any infectious disease to any person residing
"in the district, considerable difficulty would be met with and
"delay occasioned, as under the existing provisions of the