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(2) No room which is used as a sleeping room must communicate
directly with the room or shop in which milk
or cream is sold or stored.
(3) The premises must be so constructed that every part of
the interior is capable of being maintained in a satisfactory
state of cleanliness.
(4) The "dairy" must not have an open front to the street
or public place. No milk or cream shall be sold from a
stall outside a "dairy" or from a stall in any street or
public place.
(5) Adequate water-closet accommodation and facilities for
the personal cleanliness of persons engaged in the business
must be provided on the premises.
(6) There must be no inlet to any drain in the room or place
in which milk or cream is sold or stored.
(7) Milk or cream must be stored in suitable receptacles with
close-fitting covers of suitable material.
(8) Efficient means of cleansing the milk or cream vessels,
either by steam or hot water, must be available.
(9) A plentiful supply of water must be provided, and where
a storage cistern is necessary such cistern must be
properly covered and ventilated and so placed as to be
readily accessible.
(10) No premises will be registered where it is possible that
milk or cream may be stored in close proximity to any
article capable of contaminating such milk or cream,
as for instance, paraffin, coal, vegetables, vinegar and
pickles (except when stored in unopened bottles), fish,
etc.,. and no such articles must be sold from the premises.
(11) No premises will be registered if there is a manure or
other offensive accumulation in close proximity.
(12) Efficient means for the removal of refuse must be provided.
Refuse bins must be placed in a forecourt or yard.
Fulfilment of these conditions was not necessary when milk
was sold only in bottles as received, but to suggest that the
wrapping of ice cream is the equivalent of the bottling of milk is
absurd. There can be no doubt that ice cream is a dangerous
food as, at one time, milk was, and if it is advisable to warn the
public about cleanliness in articles of food, " especially food, e.g.
fruit, that is likely to be eaten without cooking," the fact that
the ice cream and poliomyelitis seasons are to a great extent
concurrent should not be overlooked. If the public were aware