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"If at any time disease exists among the cattle in a dairy or
cowshed, or other building or place, the milk of a diseased cow
therein—
(а) Shall not be mixed with other milk, and
(b) Shall not be sold or used for human food."
Section 13 enables the Local Authority to make regulations
"for the inspection of cattle in dairies an important provision
in view of accumulating evidence in regard to the transmissibility
of certain bovine diseases to man.
Section 8 requires provision to be made in every cowshed as
regards the lighting and the ventilation, including air space, and
the cleansing, drainage, and water supply thereof, such as may be
necessary "for the health and good condition of the cattle therein."
Section 9 forbids any person (master or man) suffering
from a dangerous infectious disorder, or having recently been in
contact with a person so suffering, "to milk cows, or to handle
vessels used for containing milk for sale, or in any way to take
part or assist in the conduct of the trade or business of the cowkeeper
or dairyman, etc.... so far as regards the production,
distribution, or storage of milk... until all danger of
the communication of infection to the milk or of its contamination
has ceased."
Proceeding upon these powers the Board in their new
Regulations require every seller of milk "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, to give notice of such outbreak to the
Board;... to remove all milk for sale, and all utensils for
containing milk for sale, from such building; and to cease to keep
milk for sale, or to sell milk, in such building, until the same has
been disinfected and declared by the Medical Officer of Health for
the District to be free from infection." The Regulations further
provide for the preservation of milk from contamination by "gases
or effluvia arising from sewers, drains, gullies, cesspools, or
closets, or by any offensive effluvia from putrid or offensive substances,"
etc.