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The regulations which are here printed are amended ones, and
differ in some respects from those originally issued. Notably the
amount of space at first required was 800 cubic feet per cow; this has
been reduced to 600, where the ventilating arrangements are found to
be satisfactory.
Next, by the 5th regulation, as to construction, it will be seen that
the inner walls, doors, and woodwork are required to be covered with
hard, smooth, impervious material to a certain height; this is copied
from the Slaughter-house regulations, and where blood is liable to be
splashed about in a confined space is a very useful and proper provision.
But in a cow shed the conditions are altered, and good honest
limewash frequently renewed is, in my opinion, infinitely better than
the "Silicate paint," allowed by the Metropolitan Board to be used as
"hard, smooth, impervious material," this paint (which has been very
extensively used by the cowkeepers) soon becomes shabby and dirty,
gets rubbed off in patches by the friction of the cows' bodies, and can
only be renewed at considerable expense, while limewash costs next
to nothing, and can be applied by the farm servants in their spare time.
Nothing is said in these regulations about applications for new
licences for cow sheds, so far as regards position and sanitary surroundings;
indeed, as was stated by my colleague, Dr. Tripe, the
Metropolitan Board of Works has no locus standi at the Licensing
Sessions, its powers extending only to the recovery of penalties for
breach of Bye-laws. The magistrates, whilst agreeing with Dr. Tripe,
considered that as the Board of Works has such immense powers, it
would be convenient and advisable to hear the statements of the
Board's Solicitor, and be guided to a certain extent by his advice.
Metropolitan Board of Works
41 & 42 Vict., Ch. 74.
REGULATIONS AS TO DAIRIES, COWSHEDS, AND
MILKSHOPS.
In pursuance of Section 34 of the 41 and 42 Vict., Ch. 74, the following
Order in Council was made on the gth July, 1879:—
THE DAIRIES, COWSHEDS, & MILKSHOPS ORDER OF JULY, 1879.
Preliminary.
†.—This Order may be cited as the Dairies, CoWsheds, and Milkshops Order of
July, 1879.