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The relationship of Tuberculosis and other infectious diseases
to the milk supply has now been established, and as the Council
are the guardians of the health of the inhabitants of the district,
they should be in a position to deal with all milk produced
within or without the district by which disease is spread therein
Legal powers necessary. For the better regulation of the
milk traffic and the prevention of diseases communicable by milk,
further power's are required. The following clauses are suggested
for insertion in the Council's Bill to be promoted in 1912 :—
Registration of Dairies and Dairymen.
1. (1). A person shall not carry on the trade of dairyman
in any dairy from which milk is supplied within the
district of Heston and Isleworth, unless he and the dairy are
registered with the Council in accordance with this Act, and
if he does so he shall be guilty of an offence and shall be
liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding five
pounds.
Provided that,
(a). In the case of a farm comprising several cowsheds,
it shall not be necessary to register each cowshed
as a separate dairy.
(b). In the case of a purveyor of milk not having a
dairy within the meaning of this Act, the place where he
keeps the vessels used by him for the purpose of the
sale of milk, shall be deemed to be a dairy for the
purposes of this Section.
(2). The District Council may remove any dairy from
the register, or may refuse to register any premises as a
dairy, if
(a). The premises become or are unsuitable to the
purposes of the business carried on, or proposed to be
carried on, therein ; or
(b). The premises are a nuisance or do not comply
with the provisions of this Act;