INSPECTION OF MILK AND DAIRIES.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2412, 28 December 1881, Page 4

INSPECTION OF MILK AND DAIRIES.

In the “Nerr Zealand Gazette” of th® 22nd instant there is an Order in Oonnoi 1 having reference to the inspection of milk and dairies. Tho powers of the Governor in Council under the third section of the Public Health Act, 1876, Amendment Act, 183!, are referred to, and the following subsections quoted ; — 1 , _ - (1.) For the registration with tho Local Board of all persons carrying on the trade of CdW- 1 keepers, dairymen, or purveyors of milk: (2.) For the appointment of inspectors of milk and of dairies : .... (3.) For the inspection of cattle in dames, and for prescribing and regulating the lighting, ventilation, cleansing, drainage, and water supply of dairies and cowsheds and yards in the occupation of persons following the trade of cowkeepers or dairymen, used by them in connection with such occupation : (4.) For securing the cleanliness of milk stores, milkshops, and of milk vessels used for containing milk for sale by such persons : (5.) For prescribing precautions to be taken for protecting milk against infection or contamination, and for prohibiting the sale of milk in oases where tho public health would be likely to bo endangered by such sale : (6.) For authorising Local Boards to make regulations for the purposes aforesaid, or any of them, subject to such conditions, if any, as the Governor in “ounoil may prescribe : His Excellency then passes the following regulation: Any Local Board of Health may, within its limits and jurisdiction, make regulations for all or any of tne purposes specified in the first five subsections of the above recited section, subject nevertheless to the following conditions : (a.) No one but a duly-qualified medical practitioner shall be appointed as on Inspector of Milk or Dairies.

(b.) None of such regulations shall enable the sale of milk to he prohibited unless the Inspector of Milk or Dairies, or some other duly■ qualified medical practitioner, shall certify that the use of the milk, the sale of which is proposed to be prohibited, is likely to endanger the public health.

(c.) That any such regulations so made may at any time be repealed by the Governor in Council.