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 Hackney]
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6. The following provisions shall apply for the purpose of preventing
contamination or infection of milk:—
(1) Milk shall not be deposited or kept in any place where it is
liable to become contaminated or infected. In particular it
shall not be deposited or kept—
(i) in any room used as a kitchen, scullery, living-room or
sleeping-room; or
(ii) in any room or part of a building which communicates
directly by door, window or otherwise with,—
(a) any water-closet, earth-closet, privy, cesspool or
receptacle for ashes or other refuse; or
(b) any room which is used as a sleeping-room or any
room which is occupied by a person suffering from
an infectious disease, or which, having been so
occupied, has not been subsequently properly disinfected;
or
(iii) in any room or part of a building in which there is any
direct inlet to a drain which is not efficiently trapped :
Provided that the foregoing provisions shall not be deemed
to prohibit the deposit or keeping of milk intended for use
in the manufacture of butter, cream or cheese in a room
used as a kitchen.
(2) Vessels containing milk shall be properly covered or the milk
shall be otherwise effectively protected from dust, dirt, flics
or other sources of contamination;
(3) No foul or noxious matter or soiled bed or body clothing shall
be conveyed through any part of a building used for the
keeping or storage of milk.
7. Every person engaged in the milking of cows or the distribution or
measuring of milk or otherwise having access to the milk or to the churns
or other milk receptacles shall keep his clothing and person in a cleanly
condition.
8. A person shall not carry out any process of cooling, bottling,
sterilising or pasteurising milk or any other process connected with milk,