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Hackney 1926

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]

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or keep any appliances connected with any such process, in a cowshed or
in any place where the milk or appliances would be liable to contamination
arising' from any cowshed, stable or manure-heap, or otherwise.
Infectious Disease.
9. Every person having access to the milk or to the churns or other
milk receptacles in or about any registered premises, as soon as he becomes
aware that any member of his household is suffering from any infectious
disease, shall immediately notify the occupier of such premises of the fact
and the occupier shall immediately notify the medical officer of health of
the district in which the premises arc situate unless notification has already
been given to that officer.
10. (1) Where the medical officer of health of a sanitary district is in
possession of evidence that any person is suffering from infectious disease
caused by the consumption of milk supplied within the district from any
registered premises or that the milk at any registered premises within the
district has been infected with such disease, he may by a notice in writing
to the occupier of such premises specifying such evidence require, if the
premises are within the district, that no milk from such premises (or, if
the notice so provides, no milk received at such premises from any
specified source) shall be sold for human consumption or used in the manufacture
of products for human consumption, or, if the premises are without
the district, that no such milk shall be sold for human consumption
within the district.
(2) No person shall sell milk for human consumption or use milk
or sell milk for use in the manufacture of products for human consumption
contrary to the terms of a notice given by the medical officer of health
under this article.
11. (1) Where the medical officer of health of the registering authority
by reason of such notification or otherwise suspects that any of the persons
in or about any registered premises who have access to the milk or to the
churns or other milk receptacles is suffering from an infectious disease
or has recently been in contact with any person so suffering or is in such
a condition that there is a danger of his transmitting an infectious disease
he may give notice to the occupier of such premises that he considers it