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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necessary to make an examination of any or all of such persons; and where
he gives such notice, the said occupier and every person concerned shall
give to the medical officer of health all reasonable facilities for making
such examination.
(2) Where from the result of any such examination or otherwise
the medical officer of health is of opinion that the employment of any
such person is likely to lead to the spread of infectious disease, the
medical officer of health may give notice in writing to that effect to the
occupier of the registered premises and to the person concerned requiring
that, during a period to be specified in such notice, the person to whom
the notice relates shall not milk cows or handle vessels used for containing
milk or in any way take part in the production, distribution or
storage of milk.
(3) A person to whom any such notice relates and any other person
who is suffering from an infectious disease or has recently been in contact
with a person so suffering shall not milk cows or handle vessels used
for containing milk or in any way take part in the production, distribution
or storage of milk until the expiry of the period mentioned in the notice
or, as the case may be, until all danger of the communication of infectious
disease by means of the milk has ceased.
(4) No cowkeeper or dairyman shall allow any person to whom any
such notice relates, or any other person who is so suffering or has recently
been in contact as aforesaid, to milk cows or handle vessels used for
containing milk or in any way to take part in the production, distribution
or storage of milk, until the expiry of the period mentioned in the notice
or, as the case may be, until all danger of the communication of infectious
disease by means of the milk has ceased.
12. No person shall keep any swine or poultry in any cowshed or room
in which cows in milk are kept or milked or in which milk or milk
utensils are kept or in any room or shed communicating directly therewith.
13. Every cowkeeper or dairyman shall cause all vessels (including
the lids of such vessels) and appliances used or intended to be used by