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DAIRIES AND COWSHFDS.
To further safeguard the district from contaminated milk, Mr.
Still, M.R.C.V.S., has been appointed Veterinary Surgeon to
examine and report on all milch cows in the district.
The Council, acting as Sanitary Authority, have now taken
every precaution that can legally be taken to safeguard the district
against contaminated milk.
All the cows are systematically inspected.
The sheds are airy, healthy, and carry out all conditions
required by the Act.
Samples of milk are taken at the railway stations, from
carts in the street, and all the dairies, and examined for
Tuberculosis and diet contamination.
All Dairies and Milkshops are frequently inspected, and
great stress has been laid on the recent application of the
London County Council, who, failing promised parliamentary
legislation, have acquired the legal right to :
Take samples of milk.
Inspect cows in any dairy within or without the county of
London.
Power for their duly authorised officers to enter any dairy
outside London from which milk is being sold for use within
the county. Where they have reason to suspect that any
cow is affected with Tuberculosis of the Udder, they may
take samples of the milk of such cows.
These conditions have been obtained and acted on in this
district since 1906.
The power in addition to these which the London County
have obtained and we have not, is one that I advocated so
long ago as 1905, viz., that the sanitary authority at the
place of reception should, on proof of disease or contamination,
have power to prohibit the sale of that milk in their
district. When the new regulations are made, there are
favourable signs that they will contain a clause to carry out
these restrictions.
FACTORY AND WORKSHOPS ACTS.
All Workshops in the district have been periodically inspected.
The number of registered Workshops has been greatly
increased during the past year.