INSPECTION OF MILK AND DAIRIES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LVI, Issue 6501, 28 December 1881, Page 5

INSPECTION OF MILK AND DAIRIES.

The following regulation, having reference to the inspection of milk and dairies, has been ftseited os an Ordor-iu-Oounril under date Dec. 22 1 . Any Local Board of Health may, within its limits and jurisdiction, make regulation* for alt or any of the purposes specified m toe first five subsection* of the above recited section, (Public Health Act 1676 Amendment Act 1881) subject nevertheless to the following conditions t—- (*■) No one but a duly qualified medical practitioner shall ho appointed as an Inspector of Milk or Dairies. , (A) None of such regulations shall enable the sale of. milk to bo prohibited unless the Inspector of Milk or , Dairies, or some other duly qualified medical practitioner, shall certify that the u'se of too milk, the sale of which is proposed to he prohibited, is likely to endanger the public health, (c.) That any such regulations so mdo may at any time be repealed by the Governor in Council. The tab-sections of the Act referred to are as follows: (I.) For the registration with the Local Board of all persons carrying on the trade of eowkeepert, dairymen, or purveyors of milk. (2.) For the appointment of Inspectors of Milk and of Dairies. (3.) For the inspection of cattle in dairies, and for prescribing end regulating too lighting, ventilation, cleansing, drainage, and water-supply of dairies and cowsheds and yards in the occupation of persons following the trade of cowkeepors or dairymen, or used by them in connection with snob oooupation. (4) For securing the cleanliness of milk stores, ailkshops, and of milk vessels used for containing milk for sole by such persons. (6.) For prescribing precautions to be taken for protecting mul : against infection or contamination, and for prohibiting too sale of milk in cases where the public health would he likely to be endangered by such sale. (6.) For authorising Local Boards to make regulations for the purposes aforesaid, or any of them, eubject to such conditions', if any, as the Governor in Oooneil may prescribe.