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2. Utensils.—All utensils and vessels used for the reception,
storage, or delivery of milk, shall be thoroughly cleansed with steam
or scalding water as frequently as may be necessary for keeping such
utensils and vessels perfectly clean and sweet, and only clean water
shall be used for the purpose.
3. General.—Every person following the trade of Cowkeeper or
Dairyman shall, at all times, employ such means and adopt such
precautions, as may be necessary for keeping the utensils and vessels
used by him for containing milk in a clean and wholesome condition,
so as to preserve the purity of such milk.
Regulations prescribing precautions to be taken by
Purveyors of milk, and persons selling milk by retail
in the Metropolis, against infection or contamination,
made by the Metropolitan Board of Works, in
pursuance of Section 13 of the Dairies, Cowsheds,
and Milk-shops Order of 1885.
1. Notice of Outbreak of Disease.—Every Purveyor of milk,
or person selling milk by retail, shall immediately on any outbreak of
infectious or contagious disease within the building or upon the
premises in which he keeps milk, or amongst the persons employed in
his business, give notice of such outbreak to the Board at their Office
in Spring Gardens.
2. Milk in Infected Building.—Every Purveyor of milk, or
person selling milk by retail, shall, immediately on such outbreak
coming to his knowledge, remove all milk for sale, and all utensils for
containing milk for sale, from such building; and shall cease to keep
milk for sale or to sell milk in such building until the same has been
disinfected and declared by the Medical Officer of Health for the
district to be free from infection.
3. Offensive Effluvia.—Every Purveyor of milk, or person
selling milk by retail, shall not keep milk for sale in any place where
it would be liable to become infected or contaminated by gases or
effluvia arising from any sewers, drains, gullies, cesspools, or closets,
or by any offensive effluvia from putrid or offensive substances, or by
impure air, or by any offensive or deleterious gases or substances.
4. Receptacles.—Every Purveyor of milk, or person selling milk
by retail, shall only keep milk for sale in clean receptacles ; and all
utensils used in connection with the keeping or sale of such milk shall
be at all times kept clean.