Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Woolwich]
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Every person selling milk without being registered is
liable to a penalty of £5.
(3) A person following the trade of a cowkeeper or
dairyman or purveyor of milk, or being the occupier
of a milk store or milkshop, must not use
a milk store or milkshop in his occupation or
permit the same to be used, as a sleeping apartment,
or for any purpose incompatible with the
proper preservation of the cleanliness of the milk
store or milkshop and of the milk vessels and milk
therein, or in any manner likely to cause contamination
of the milk therein.
(4) Every purveyor of milk, or person selling milk by
retail, must immediately on any outbreak of infectious
or contagious disease within the building
or upon the premises in which he keeps milk, or
amongst the persons employed in his business, give
notice of such outbreak to the Medical Officer of
Health, Town Hall, Woolwich.
(5) Every purveyor of milk, or person selling milk by
retail, must immediately on such outbreak coming
to his knowledge, remove all milk for sale, and
all utensils for containing milk for sale, from such
building ; and must cease to keep milk for sale or
to sell milk in such building until the same has
been disinfected and declared by the Borough
Medical Officer of Health to be free from infection.
(6) A purveyor of milk, or person selling milk by retail,
must 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