THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1906.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8217, 22 August 1906, Page 4

THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1906.

The Loudon County Council is taking strenuous steps to have the food supply of the ereat metropolis thoroughly inspected, in the interests of the teeming millions who are at the mercy of the providers. It has been decided by the Oounoil tj in troduce a Bill which will put the question of the purity of the milk supply beyond all suspicion. The Bill will Rlso provide that laundry proprietors shall keep a register of their oustcmers open for inspection; will empower the Council to cleanse dirty aobolars and frequenters of common lodging-houses; control the fried fish, flsb-ouring and marine store dealers' businesses; deal with all places where food is prepared for sale, and stop the sorting of house refuse by hand. The milk inspection is even more drastic. The sale

is prohibited in any district affected or likely to be affeoted by an infectious disease. Dairymen have to keep a list of tbeir customers and of their souroes of supply open for inspection. All oowa suffering from tubercular disease must be isolated, and the Council will take power to sample all the milk arriving at any of the London railway stations, to proseoute people who sell dirty "milk, and give the Borough Councils, power to provide and supply milk for infants. Quite an army cf inspectors will be appointed unler the new legislation, and these will have power to take samples of milk anywhere in London at any time. According to Dt Beaton, chairman of the committee responsible for the Bill, the people of Great Britain pay £115,000,000 a year for 1,752,000,000 gallons of milk, of which 32,000,000 gbllons are arTeoted by tuberculosis, and 8 per cent, of which oonsista of straw, hay, hair and dirt. He added that a man who drank twenty tumblers of this milk would be including one of solid dirt. Duriug the discussion of the Bill a strong attempt was male to include provisions for the institution ot a County Council dairy farm, with borough councils as distributors. It was argued that it was quite as important to etisure the purity of the milk supply from municipal sources as it was to ensure the purity of water.