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Bethnal Green 1885

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal Green]

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(d) For prescribing precautions to be taken by purveyors of milk,
and persons selling milk by retail, against infection or contamination.
Provisions as to Regulations of Local Authority.
14. The following provisions shall apply to Regulations made by
a Local Authority under this Order:
(1.) Every Regulation shall be published by advertisement in a
newspaper circulating in the District of the Local Authority.
(2.) The Local Authority shall send to the Privy Council a copy of
every Regulation made by them not less than one month
before the date named in such Regulation for the same to
come into force.
(3.) If at any time the Privy Council are satisfied on inquiry
with respect to any Regulation, that the same is of too
restrictive a character, or otherwise objectionable, and direct
the revocation thereof, the same shall not come into operation,
or shall thereupon cease to operate, as the case may be.
Existence of Disease among Cattle.
15. If at any time disease exists among the cattle in a Dairy or
Cowshed, or other building or place, the milk of a diseased cow
therein—
(a) shall not be mixed with other milk; and
(b) shall not be sold or used for human food; and
(c) shall not be sold or used for food of swine, or other animals,
unless and until it has been boiled.
Acts of Local Authorities.
16.—(1.) All orders and Regulations made by a Local Authority
under The Dairies, Cowsheds, and Milk-shops Order of July, 1879, or
any Order revoked thereby, and in force at the making of this Order,
shall, as far as the same are not varied by or inconsistent with this
Order, remain in force until altered or revoked by the Local Authority.
(2.) Forms of Registers and other forms which have been before
the making of this Order prepared for use by a Local Authority
under the Dairies, Cowsheds, and Milk-shops Order of July, 1879, or
any Order revoked thereby, may be used, as far as they are suitable,
for the purposes of this Order.