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(ii) Distributors are required to be registered only with the local
authority in whose area the premises from which the milk is
distributed are situated
(iii) Provision is made for the local authority to pay compensation to a
person who sustains damage or loss through being debarred by the
Medical Officer of Health from certain employment connected with milk
because he is suffering, or has been in contact with a person who is
suffering, from a disease liable to cause infection of milk
(iv) A notice served in respect of milk infected, or suspected of being
infected, with tuberculosis will operate until it is withdrawn
(v) The Medical Officer of Health is required to notify the Minister of
the withdrawal of an infected milk notice, as well as providing the
Minister with a copy of notices served
(vi) Compensation will now be payable to a dairy farmer who has suffered
loss or damage as a result of being served with an infected milk
notice only when the notice has been wrongly served or has not been
withdrawn as soon as possible
(vii) Persons engaged in the milking of cows or otherwise having access to
milk in open containers must wear clean and washable head covering
and overalls Open cuts must be kept covered with a waterproof
dressing and spitting and the use of tobacco is prohibited
(viii) Occupiers of dairies and dairy farms must provide first aid
equipment.
The department's register of distributors of milk, and dairy premises,
as at the 1st January. 1959 shows the following entries:-
Distributors of Milk
(i) Prom dairy premises outside the Borough 30
(ii) From dairy premises in the borough . 26
(iii) From premises in the borough, other than dairies 189
245
Dairy premises 26
Legal action was taken against two distributors for offences under
Regulation 27, namely, failing to ensure cleanliness of vessels used for
containing milk, with the following results:-
Fines
Costs
£
s
d.
£
s.
d.
Failed to ensure cleanliness of a
vessel used for containing milk.
1
0
0
1
0
0
Failed to ensure cleanliness of a
vessel used for containing milk.
3
0
0
1
0
0
(b) MILK (SPECIAL DESIGNATION) (RAW MILK) REGULATIONS, 1949 1954 The
following licences were issued by the Borough Council:
Dealer s Licence Tuberculin Tested Milk 36
Dealer's Supplementary Licence - Tuberculin Tested Milk 17
Thirteen samples of raw milk were submitted for biological examination for
tubercle bacilli and all gave negative results