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Regulations prescribing precautions to be taken by Purveyors of milk, and persons
selling milk by retail in the Metropolis, against infection or contamination, made by the
Metropolitan Board of Works in pursuance of Section 13 of the Dairies, Cowsheds and
Milk shops Order of 1885.
1.—Every Purveyor of milk, or person selling milk by retail, shall 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 Board at their Office in Spring
Gardens.
Notice of
outbreak of
Disease.
2.—Every Purveyor of milk, or person selling milk by retail, shall 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 shall 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.
Milk in
infected
building
3.—Every Purveyor of milk or person selling milk by retail, shall 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 by
impure air, or bv anv offensive or deleterious gases or substances.
Offensive
effluvia
4 —Every purveyor of milk, or person selling milk by retail, shall only keep
milk for sale in clean receptacles ; and all utensils used in connection with the
keeping or sale of such milk shall be at all times kept clean.
Receptacles.
5.—Every Purveyor of milk, or person selling milk by retail, shall at all times
employ such means, and adopt such precautions, as may be necessary for
preserving the purity of milk, and for protecting it against infection or
:ontamination.
General.
By Order.
J. E. WAKEFIELD,
Clerk of the Board.
Dated this Third day of July, 1885, at the Office of the Metropolitan Board
of Works, Spring Gardens, Charing Cross.
NOTE.—Sections 60 and 61 of the 41st and 42nd Victoria Ch.74, provide that any
person who does anything in contravention of an Order in Council or of a Regulation
of a Local Authority is guilty of an offence against the Act, and is liable to a Penally
not exceeding Twenty Pounds.
Upon receipt of a copy of the Regulations, I at once requested
to be furnished with a list of those persons who had been registered
by the Metropolitan Eoard, and such list, when received, was
carefully revised and corrected by your Inspectors, and then
returned for perusal to Spring-gardens. The list, therefore, which
I append, represents such persons as come within the Regulations,
and is corrected up to November last.